we have now spent one year trying to use Wikidata operationally, in our botprojects, but found it is impossible in the state it is now, from many perspectives. It has been a big disappointment but we hope it will look better a year from now Anders
Gerard Meijssen skrev 2014-06-16 12:44:
Hoi, I blogged about Lsjbot.. [1]. I really hope that a lot of attention is given in finding the links to existing items in Wikidata. Thanks, GerardM
[1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/06/wikipedia-to-bot-or-not-to-bot.ht...
On 16 June 2014 12:25, Anders Wennersten mail@anderswennersten.se wrote:
After having changed job and residence Sverker is now on it again. This time Lsjbot will generate some 300 000 articles on plant species. The initiative is now receiving full support and even enthusiasm from the fellow wikipedians on svwp
It is now close to one year since the 1M article on insects, animal etc was generated and we now have had some feedback whereof I here give some examples *The students on a university veterinary course was given the assignment to write article on parasitic worms and put them up om Wikipedia. These became excellent: complete and voluminous. This was in many way helped/made possible by that there already existed Lsjbot stubs with complete Taxobox, iw-links, categories and basic sources. The students are expert on subjects not the wikispecialities *the experts on animal etc among our Wikipedians has now shifted focus. There are species where the authorities disagree on the taxonomy and here Lsjbot did not generate any article. among birds there are some 500 disputed species. These articles our experts now work with, highlighting the disputes, why, what and by whom. And when we compare these manually created articles we find that on most other language versions, these only take data from one authority and are not correctly describing the dispute. Perhaps svwp will after this not only be most complete but also most correct version on species?
As a side effect (not a goal in itself) we expect svwp to be the second biggest version, when it comes to number of articles, by August/September
And when it comes to botgeneration in general, we are continuing our researcheffort into generate some 0,3-0,5 M articles on geographic entities from all over the world by end 2015/2016 using Wikidata as a source.
Anders
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