I found a 404 on 5000 Q pages, because the data base was turned off,
it should have been fixed, but all they did was to deprecate the entry.
I contacted the 2 main creators, editors. the one told me not to talk to
her on
her page, or she would have me blocked and to put it on the wikidata
discussion
page which she did not go to to answer me, the other one contacted a bot
owner who
changed all the URL’s to the wayback URL.but when wayback took down some of
the
last entry's, and i tried to talk to that bot direct he refused to talk to
me.
this all makes me feel like a whistle-blower.
SEE: [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs
From: Caroline Becker
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:51 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing
List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata now officially has more total
edits than English language Wikipedia
But...
bots are operated, written, and reviewed by real humans ? Like if I
spend 2
hours adding "painting by Vincent van Gogh" manually on every
relevant item
by hand, how is that more valuable than spending 20 minutes
to write a bot
that does that for me (and can be used for similar tasks)
?
Caroline
Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 10:45, Gabriel Thullen
< gabriel(a)thullen.com > a
écrit :
Sorry about this mail, I
hate to rain on
somebody's parade but:
Ever since Wikidata was set up,
there have been
more edit made by bots than
by humans (registered
contributor + anonymous
contributor), except for a
few periods in 2017
and 2018. On the other
hand, the activity of the bots
on the English
Wikipedia has almost always been
lower than the activity of
anonymous
contributors, and that activity has
always been well below that
of
registered contributors. There was one
exception, in 2013 where there
was a spike of bot activity.
We could also talk about the average number
of
edits per contributor which
appears to be around 100 on the English
Wikipedia and 1,200 on Wikidata
(these numbers are after removing the
estimated
edits done by bots). Quite
a difference.
The different
Wikimedia projects rely on the community to police and curate
the
content of these encyclopedias and data
collections. I am therefore a
bit wary of what is happening with Wikidata
where more edits are still
being done by bots than by real humans (by
"real" I mean "real" not like
"real" as in the TV series "real
humans")
>
> Best regards
Gabe
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:25 AM Olushola Olaniyan
<
> olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com >
> wrote:
>
>
This is a good news.
> >
> > Cheers!!!
> >
> Olaniyan Olushola
> > CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd
>
President, Wikimedia Nigeria
> Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia
Foundation)
> > Co-director Wiki Women Radio
> >
www.wikimedia.org.ng
> > shola(a)wikimedia.org.ng
> > olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com
> > +2348167352512
> >
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 08:52 Ziko van Dijk
< zvandijk(a)gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hello Ariel
Glenn,
> > Thanks for the notification, very
interesting. Well, we
all know that
> > making a lot of edits on Wikidata is
"easier" or
happens quicker than
on
> > Wikipedia, for various
reasons. But still it is a nice milestone to
> > congratulate to
Wikidata. Hereby.
:-)
> > > Kind regards
> >
Ziko
> >
> >
> > Am Mi., 20. März 2019
um 07:58 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen <
> > > gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com >:
> > >
> > >
Hoi,
> > > So in stead of calling us all
Wikipedia, let us be
known as
> Wikidata...
> > > > HUUUUU
> >
> Thanks,
> > > >
GerardM
> > >
> > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at
07:48, Ariel Glenn WMF <
ariel(a)wikimedia.org >
> >
wrote:
> > >
> > > > Wikidata surpassed the
English language Wikipedia in the
number of
> > > >
revisions in the
database, about 45 minutes ago today.I was tipped
>
off
> > > by a
> > > > tweet [1] a few day
ago and have been watching via a script
that
> > > displays
> > > > the largest revision id and
its timestamp. Here's the point
where
> > > Wikidata
> > > > overtakes
English Wikipedia (times in UTC):
> > > > >
> >
> >
[ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py
-d
> > > >
www.wikidata.org -r 888603998
,888603999,888604000
> > > > revid 888603998 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > revid 888603999 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > revid 888604000 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > [ariel@bigtrouble
wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d
> > > >
en.wikipedia.org -r
888603998 ,888603999,888604000
> > > >
revid 888603998 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > > revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > > revid 888604000 at
2019-03-20T06:01:00Z
> > > > >
> > > >
Only 45 minutes
later, the gap is already over 2000 revsions:
> >
> >
> > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3
./compare_sizes.py
> > > > Last enwiki revid is 888606979
and last wikidata revid is 888629401
> > > > 2019-03-20
06:46:03: diff is 22422
> > > > >
> > > >
Have a nice day!
> > > > >
> > > >
Ariel
> > > > >
> > > > > [1]
https://twitter.com/MonsieurAZ/status/1106565116508729345
> > >
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