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=...
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