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