Hoi,

With all respect, it is an old example and there are later bots who created more articles. Also with Wikidata it is becoming increasingly easy NOT to create the data in the Wikipedia as a stub but to produce a template with well formatted data that will even expand as more data becomes available.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 15 January 2014 21:30, Edward Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:

Andrew Lih’s book The Wikipedia Revolution has a chapter Then Came the Bots [1] which has a really nice description of Derek Ramsey’s rambot, which created articles about cities using US Census data.

//Ed

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=39NOwajk3okC&lpg=PA1970&pg=PT157#v=onepage&q=Then%20Cam%20ethe%20Bots&f=false

PS. Not really sure if that googlebooks URL will work :-)

On Jan 15, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <gciampag@indiana.edu> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> is there a list bot-generated articles or, simpler, a list of known bots that have been responsible for the creation/renomination/merging of articles on enwiki?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

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