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) 2. Re: [Wikitech-l] A bot to create articles about species (Nikola Smolenski)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 03:26:20 +0200 From: Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia bot editors discussion wikibots-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikibots-l] A bot to create articles about species Message-ID: 507F5ABC.5080400@aronsson.se Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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/Lsjbo...
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-svensk...
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.C...
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:46:22 +0200 From: Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Wikimedia bot editors discussion wikibots-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikibots-l] [Wikitech-l] A bot to create articles about species Message-ID: 507FA5BE.5060308@eunet.rs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
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/Lsjbo...
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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