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,
First two places I'd look are: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/BotActivityMatrixCreates.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/BotActivityMatrixEdits.htm
Cheers, Morten
On 15 January 2014 14:15, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia gciampag@indiana.eduwrote:
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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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
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=...
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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Thank you all. The stats provided by Morten may be a good starting point, but I just found out that the New Pages Feed [1] does exactly what I need -- are the data stored anywhere in the database or is it just a feed?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed
Giovanni
On Thu 16 Jan 2014 11:17:02 AM EST, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
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 mailto: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 <mailto: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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
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.
:-) I wasn’t suggesting it as a picture of what’s going on *now* with Wikipedia … but rather as a well written piece of research about the topic at hand. This is a research list right?
//Ed
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