Congratulations to everyone involved. I'd love to have a look at it and propose it for Tamil Wikipedia. Were the Swedish common names obtained by manual translation?
Regards,
Sundar
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
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> 1. A bot to create articles about species (Lars Aronsson)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:26:20 +0200
>From: Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se>
>To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
> bot editors discussion <wikibots-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: [Wikibots-l] A bot to create articles about species
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>User:Lsj has written 4000 lines of C# source code on top
>of the DotNetWikiBot framework, to create 10,000 articles
>in Swedish about bird species in the spring of 2012 and
>recently even more articles in Swedish about fungi species.
>
>Some information about his Lsjbot is found here,
>http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_DotNetWikiBot_Framework/Lsjb…
>
>The otherwise very reluctant/skeptic/picky Swedish Wikipedia
>community has gladly accepted these well-written articles.
>
>I think it would be interesting if a community of wikipedians
>in some other language would try to translate this bot.
>Some languages might have notability or relevance requirements
>that these species don't fulfill, others might think 1700
>bytes is a too short article. But I think the citation of
>sources and correctness of fact would be generally accepted.
>
>Here is a blog post in Swedish about the bird articles,
>http://wikimediasverige.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/10-000-fagelarter-pa-svens…
>
>Some 3,600 birds are found in this category for articles
>that were bot-created and have not yet been inspected,
>http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Robotskapade_f%C3%A5gelartiklar
>Some 54,000 fungi species are found here,
>http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Robotskapade_svampartiklar
>The birds more often have common names, which are preferred
>as article names instead of the Latin/scientific names,
>e.g. the blue-and-white swallow,
>http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A5vit_svala
>where the Latin name is a bot-created redirect to the
>bot-created article,
>http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygochelidon_cyanoleuca
>
>At the Swedish Wikipedia village pump there is now a
>discussion of whether to continue with species of animals,
>plants, bacteria, etc.
>http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bybrunnen#Botskapande_av_artiklar_f.…
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> Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
> Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:46:22 +0200
>From: Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.rs>
>To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Cc: Wikimedia bot editors discussion <wikibots-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Wikibots-l] [Wikitech-l] A bot to create articles about
> species
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>On 18/10/12 03:26, Lars Aronsson wrote:
>> User:Lsj has written 4000 lines of C# source code on top
>> of the DotNetWikiBot framework, to create 10,000 articles
>> in Swedish about bird species in the spring of 2012 and
>> recently even more articles in Swedish about fungi species.
>>
>> Some information about his Lsjbot is found here,
>> http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projekt_DotNetWikiBot_Framework/Lsjb…
>>
>> The otherwise very reluctant/skeptic/picky Swedish Wikipedia
>> community has gladly accepted these well-written articles.
>>
>> I think it would be interesting if a community of wikipedians
>> in some other language would try to translate this bot.
>> Some languages might have notability or relevance requirements
>> that these species don't fulfill, others might think 1700
>> bytes is a too short article. But I think the citation of
>> sources and correctness of fact would be generally accepted.
>
>The need for such bots should cease after Wikidata is fully deployed. I
>suggest to interested programmers that they should direct their effort
>there.
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Hi folks :)
As you might have heard we've been working on Wikidata
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata) for a few months now. The
first phase of Wikidata is about centralizing language links in
Wikidata. We are getting close to a first deployment of this on the
Hungarian Wikipedia and then probably the Hebrew or Italian Wikipedia.
I wanted to give you a heads-up about this.
A few people have already started working on bots to migrate language
links to Wikidata where desired. (The current system will continue to
work.) This includes the PyWikidata library. You can find the current
state here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Bots.
I also wanted to let you know that we'll unfortunately have to break
the API after deployment. I'll keep you updated on this. It might be
wise to wait for that to happen before transitioning existing bots.
Please let me know about any questions you have.
Cheers
Lydia
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Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.