The code may always be written and and often reviewed by humans but the data clearly is not. There was an instance recently of a bot adding an incorrect date of birth of 1950 to thousands of entries due to a misunderstanding (by its human author) about VIAF file formats
JPS
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:51 AM Caroline Becker carobecker54@gmail.com wrote:
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 :
Sorry about this mail, I hate to rain on somebody's parade but: Ever since Wikidata was set up, there have been more edit made by bots
than
by humans (registered contributor + anonymous contributor), except for a few periods in 2017 and 2018. On the other hand, the activity of the bots on the English Wikipedia has almost always been lower than the activity
of
anonymous contributors, and that activity has always been well below that of registered contributors. There was one exception, in 2013 where there was a spike of bot activity. We could also talk about the average number of edits per contributor
which
appears to be around 100 on the English Wikipedia and 1,200 on Wikidata (these numbers are after removing the estimated edits done by bots).
Quite
a difference. The different Wikimedia projects rely on the community to police and
curate
the content of these encyclopedias and data collections. I am therefore a bit wary of what is happening with Wikidata where more edits are still being done by bots than by real humans (by "real" I mean "real" not like "real" as in the TV series "real humans")
Best regards Gabe
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:25 AM Olushola Olaniyan < olaniyanshola15@gmail.com> wrote:
This is a good news.
Cheers!!!
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 08:52 Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Ariel Glenn, Thanks for the notification, very interesting. Well, we all know that making a lot of edits on Wikidata is "easier" or happens quicker than
on
Wikipedia, for various reasons. But still it is a nice milestone to congratulate to Wikidata. Hereby. :-) Kind regards Ziko
Am Mi., 20. März 2019 um 07:58 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>:
Hoi, So in stead of calling us all Wikipedia, let us be known as
Wikidata...
HUUUUU Thanks, GerardM
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 07:48, Ariel Glenn WMF <ariel@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Wikidata surpassed the English language Wikipedia in the number
of
revisions in the database, about 45 minutes ago today.I was
tipped
off
by a
tweet [1] a few day ago and have been watching via a script that
displays
the largest revision id and its timestamp. Here's the point where
Wikidata
overtakes English Wikipedia (times in UTC):
[ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d www.wikidata.org -r 888603998,888603999,888604000 revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z revid 888604000 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d en.wikipedia.org -r 888603998,888603999,888604000 revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z revid 888604000 at 2019-03-20T06:01:00Z
Only 45 minutes later, the gap is already over 2000 revsions:
[ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./compare_sizes.py Last enwiki revid is 888606979 and last wikidata revid is
888629401
2019-03-20 06:46:03: diff is 22422
Have a nice day!
Ariel
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