Hi Greg,
One of the major step changes in the early growth of the English Wikipedia was when a bot called RamBot created stub articles on US places. I think they were cited to the census. Others have created articles on rivers in countries and various other topics by similar programmatic means. Nowadays such article creation is unlikely to get consensus on the English Wikipedia, but there are some languages which are very open to such creations and have them by the million.
I'm not sure if the fastest updating of existing articles is automated or just semiautomated. But looking at the bot requests page, it certainly looks like some people are running such maintenance bots "updating GDP by country" is a current bot request. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests.
I'm not sure how "the ease of a source for purposes of converting into a table and generating a separate article for each row" relates to gender. But i suspect "number of times cited in wikipedia" deserves less kudos than "number of times cited in academia".
WSC
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 05:22, Greg thenatureprogram@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks again, Kerry. I am hoping that someone with access to more resources (knowledge, support, etc) than I have will look into this.
A few more thoughts/questions:
- The link to the citation dataset from the Medium article ("What are the
ten most cited sources on Wikipedia? Let’s ask the data.") is broken. 2. As far as I can tell, every named author in the top ten most cited sources on Wikipedia is male. One piece is by a working group 3. This line from the Medium piece struck me: "Many of these publications have been cited by Wikipedians across large series of articles using powerful bots and automated tools."
Are citations being added by bots? I'm not sure that I understand that line correctly.
Greg