[Wikimedia-l] Which Wikipedias have had large scale bot creation of articles this year?

[Anders Wennersten]

Fæ skrev 2013-11-27 15:24

Small error rates are a real challenge. My experience on Commons for
large bot work has been long discussions around quality complaints
where the level of error was *well below 1%*.


Very interesting you also mention this level of problematic articles. We 
has found this magnitude in two bot project and our Wikidata project, 
all because of some problem with source data. We find they can not be 
found during test rounds, as we do not know what type of problems will 
turn up (and the articles generated are correct in relation with the 
source), and it can often take months for the community to spot them 
(like an erroneous name for a river leaving a lake).

When we entered articles manually 0,5% error level would be more then 
excellent, but when semiautomated 0,5% can by be seen by the community  
as problematic (but hardly by the Wikipedia readers).

And to lower the problematic ones semimanually from 0.5 to 0,1 can 
sometime take as much time as the total generation effort

We at sv:wp still have to come to terms with this, but I expect w at the 
end must live with this level of problematic articles (not necesary 
erronous) , and solve them case by case. We are a relative small 
community (1/40 of en:wp) and have to be pragmatic if we want to give 
our readers a lot of valuable information

Anders