After having changed job and residence Sverker is now on it again. This
time Lsjbot will generate some 300 000 articles on plant species. The
initiative is now receiving full support and even enthusiasm from the
fellow wikipedians on svwp
It is now close to one year since the 1M article on insects, animal etc
was generated and we now have had some feedback whereof I here give some
examples
*The students on a university veterinary course was given the assignment
to write article on parasitic worms and put them up om Wikipedia. These
became excellent: complete and voluminous. This was in many way
helped/made possible by that there already existed Lsjbot stubs with
complete Taxobox, iw-links, categories and basic sources. The students
are expert on subjects not the wikispecialities
*the experts on animal etc among our Wikipedians has now shifted focus.
There are species where the authorities disagree on the taxonomy and
here Lsjbot did not generate any article. among birds there are some 500
disputed species. These articles our experts now work with, highlighting
the disputes, why, what and by whom. And when we compare these
manually created articles we find that on most other language versions,
these only take data from one authority and are not correctly describing
the dispute. Perhaps svwp will after this not only be most complete but
also most correct version on species?
As a side effect (not a goal in itself) we expect svwp to be the second
biggest version, when it comes to number of articles, by August/September
And when it comes to botgeneration in general, we are continuing our
researcheffort into generate some 0,3-0,5 M articles on geographic
entities from all over the world by end 2015/2016 using Wikidata as a
source.
Anders