Fw: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata now officially has more total edits than English language Wikipedia - Wikidata

20 Mar 2019

      I found a 404 on 5000 Q pages, because the data base was turned off, 

it should have been fixed, but all they did was to deprecate the entry. 

I contacted the 2 main creators, editors. the one told me not to talk to 
her on

her page, or she would have me blocked and to put it on the wikidata 
discussion 

page which she did not go to to answer me, the other one contacted a bot 
owner who 

changed all the URL’s to the wayback URL.but when wayback took down some of 
the 

last entry's, and i tried to talk to that bot direct he refused to talk to 
me.

this all makes me feel like a whistle-blower.

SEE:  [Wikitech-l] Question to WMF: Backlog on bugs

From: Caroline Becker
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:51 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing 
List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata now officially has more total 
edits than English language Wikipedia

But... 
bots are operated, written, and reviewed by real humans ? Like if I
spend 2 
hours adding "painting by Vincent van Gogh" manually on every
relevant item 
by hand, how is that more valuable than spending 20 minutes
to write a bot 
that does that for me (and can be used for similar tasks) 
?
Caroline
Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 10:45, Gabriel Thullen 
< gabriel@thullen.com > a
écrit :
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Sorry about this mail, I
hate to rain on somebody's parade but:
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Ever since Wikidata was set up,
there have been more edit made by bots than
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by humans (registered
contributor + anonymous contributor), except for a
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few periods in 2017
and 2018. On the other hand, the activity of the bots
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on the English
Wikipedia has almost always been lower than the activity of
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anonymous
contributors, and that activity has always been well below that
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of
registered contributors. There was one exception, in 2013 where there
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was a spike of bot activity.
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We could also talk about the average number
of edits per contributor which
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appears to be around 100 on the English
Wikipedia and 1,200 on Wikidata
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(these numbers are after removing the
estimated edits done by bots). Quite
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a difference.
The different
Wikimedia projects rely on the community to police and curate
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the
content of these encyclopedias and data collections. I am therefore a
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bit wary of what is happening with Wikidata where more edits are still
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being done by bots than by real humans (by "real" I mean "real" not like
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"real" as in the TV series "real humans")
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Best regards
Gabe
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:25 AM Olushola Olaniyan
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olaniyanshola15@gmail.com >
wrote:
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This is a good news.
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Cheers!!!
Olaniyan Olushola
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CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd
President, Wikimedia Nigeria
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Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia
Foundation)
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Co-director Wiki Women Radio
 www.wikimedia.org.ng
 shola@wikimedia.org.ng
 olaniyanshola15@gmail.com
 +2348167352512
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 08:52 Ziko van Dijk
< zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
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Hello Ariel
Glenn,
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Thanks for the notification, very interesting. Well, we
all know that
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making a lot of edits on Wikidata is "easier" or
happens quicker than
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on
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Wikipedia, for various
reasons. But still it is a nice milestone to
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congratulate to
Wikidata. Hereby. :-)
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Kind regards
Ziko
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Am Mi., 20. März 2019
um 07:58 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen <
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gerard.meijssen@gmail.com >:
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Hoi,
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So in stead of calling us all Wikipedia, let us be
known as
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Wikidata...
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HUUUUU
Thanks,
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GerardM
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at
07:48, Ariel Glenn WMF < ariel@wikimedia.org >
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wrote:
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Wikidata surpassed the
English language Wikipedia in the number of
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revisions in the database, about 45 minutes ago today.I was tipped
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off
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by a
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tweet [1] a few day
ago and have been watching via a script that
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displays
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the largest revision id and its timestamp. Here's the point
where
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Wikidata
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overtakes
English Wikipedia (times in UTC):
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[ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py
-d
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www.wikidata.org -r  888603998 ,888603999,888604000
revid  888603998 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
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revid  888603999 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
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revid  888604000 at
2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
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[ariel@bigtrouble
wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d
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en.wikipedia.org -r  888603998 ,888603999,888604000
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revid  888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
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revid  888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
revid  888604000 at
2019-03-20T06:01:00Z
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Only 45 minutes later, the gap is already over 2000 revsions:
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[ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3
./compare_sizes.py
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Last enwiki revid is  888606979 and last wikidata revid is  888629401
2019-03-20
06:46:03: diff is 22422
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Have a nice day!
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Ariel
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[1]  https://twitter.com/MonsieurAZ/status/1106565116508729345

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