thanks for the very valuable information. there is a History of Wikipedia bots [1]; I added your hints in the session ""rambot" and other small-town bots”. please do not hesitate to remove, improve, correct.
yes, I am personally interested in geographic information (and its balance/unbalance) and my interest in Rambot is related to the legend (or the fact) that the upload of municipalities has triggered editing and similar bots and experiences on Wikipedia not only in English. WikiData is definitely a game changer but I share the fascination for ancient history and I think it might have some lessons to teach us. thanks! iolanda/iopensa
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:History_of_Wikipedia_bots
Il giorno 17/mar/2014, alle ore 10:44, Edward Summers ehs@pobox.com ha scritto:
On Mar 16, 2014, at 2:14 PM, R.Stuart Geiger sgeiger@gmail.com wrote:
There are lots of papers about bots which throw out the example of Rambot for a few sentences without dwelling on the case too much -- I'm certainly guilty of this, so I won't vanity cite them. However, Niederer and van Dijck [1] spend a good amount of time discussing the Rambot case in detail in their great NMS article. Andrew Lih's The Wikipedia Revolution [2] also goes pretty in-depth into the history of Rambot, talking about came to be and what it did, along with some controversies it created.
Thanks for sharing this Stuart. I for one would love to read a bibliography of research about Wikipedia bots and automation :-)
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