Dear all,
Wikispecies project has surpassed 350,000 articles. The 350,000th article was Tetramorium alpestre [1], written by User:Stho002 on January 13, 2013. Congratulations and thank you to all who us reach this milestone.
[1] http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tetramorium_alpestre
Andrew
"Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."
Interesting, considering that Wikispecies itself has 425 thousands main
namespace pages in total (including redirects)...
Nemo
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Oggetto: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M
articles of species on sv:wp
Data: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:45:25 +0100
Mittente: Anders Wennersten <mail(a)anderswennersten.se>
Rispondi-a: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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Inspired by the botgenerated articles of species made on nl:wp in late
2010 a colleague of mine, User:Lsj, started a similar project on sv:wp
early 2012. By October 2012 his bot had generated some 65 000 articles,
with essentially complete coverage of all fungi and birds.
He has since then extended the scope to include all living species, both
animals and plants, which means another 1-1,5 million articles. Running
at full permissible bot speed, the bot generates around 10,000 articles
per day, but at a more realistic speed, the full project will take the
rest of 2013 to complete.
The botcode has been written in a language-independent way, so that it
can be ported to other language versions with only a modest effort. All
language-specific text strings are in external files, so the code itself
does not need changing between language versions. Beyond Swedish, the
code has been tested on Cebuano wikipedia as well; full production on
cebwp is ready to go, just awaiting community blessing there.
The source of the core of the data is taken from Catalogue of Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalogue_of_Life but the bot also checks
with Commons, other languages(iwlinks) and other appropriate databases,
such as the IUCN Redlist of endangered species.
The botcode is written in C# and uses the DotNetWikiBot framework.
Example articles:
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichenopora_verrucariahttp://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylactolaematahttp://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundkrassinghttp://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipunculidaehttp://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaster_endeca
The full set of created articles (includes some other stuff as well,
besides organisms):
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Robotskapade_artiklarhttp://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategoriya:Paghimo_ni_bot
My colleague is much too busy now to discuss himself just now, but I
think it could be an inspiration for us all.
Besides Lsj himself there are about 10 users supporting him, with
checking that the bot generate correct data etc, it has also been
discussed extensively on our village pump etc Wikidata is as yet not
used
The page where the project is discussed is just now (in Swedish of
course..)
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion:Lsjbot/Projekt_alla_ar…
Anders
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I wonder if anyone could write (or has written) a bot to link the entries in wikispecies to the entries of individual species databases (or create such wikispecies entries in the first place).
The Catalogue of Life is compiled from about 100 individual species databases (http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/info/databases), each of which has much more information than the CoL excerpts from them. For instance, I maintain the Reptile Database (http://www.reptile-database.org) which lists almost 10,000 species, many of which do not have a wikispecies entry.
It would be great to have a bot that (1) links from each wikispecies to its respective entry in the species database and (2) updates that link once the name changes (which, unfortunately happens quite often). Obviously, this should be done for each species database as well as other metadatabases such as EoL or the NCBI taxonomy database.
Thanks and cheers,
Peter
Dear all,
A Wikispecies editor created an interactive illustrated Tree of Life [1] based on the Wikispecies data dump file. It's cool, go check it out!
[1] http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~constant/LifeTree/index.html
Andrew (User:OhanaUnited)
"Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."
Three days left! This is also about new user groups and thematical
organisations for individual projects, so forwarding.
(Plus, it's been a while since our last all-projects mass-crossposting.
;-) )
Nemo
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Oggetto: Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Affiliations Committee is looking for
candidate members
Data: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:46:05 +0100
Mittente: Lodewijk
A: Wikimedia Mailing List
Hi all,
this is the last reminder that the call will be closing on January 12 -
this is four days from now.
Please share the call for candidates on relevant fora.
Best regards,
Lodewijk Gelauff
2013/1/2 Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to remind you all that the
> Affiliations Committee is still looking for candidates! Applications can be
> sent in until 12 January as explained below.
>
> Do you understand how Wikimedia works as an organization, and would you
> like to help new organizations to get started? Then please apply! I hope
> for many high quality applications!
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
> 2012/12/12 Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> The Affiliations Committee [1], the committee that is responsible for
>> guiding volunteers in establishing Chapters, User Groups and Thematic
>> Organizations ("affiliates" in short) and approving them when they are
>> ready is looking for about 6 new members.
>>
>> The main focus of AffCom is to guide groups of volunteers in forming
>> affiliates. We make sure that the group is large enough to be viable
>> (and advise them on how to get bigger), review bylaws for compliance
>> with the requirements and best practices, and advise the Board of the
>> Wikimedia Foundation on issues connected to Chapters, Thematic
>> Organizations and User Groups.
>>
>> This requires communication with volunteers all over the World,
>> negotiating skills and cultural sensitivity and the ability to
>> understand legal texts. We try to get a healthy mix of different skill
>> sets in our members.
>>
>> Key skills/experience that we are looking for in candidate members,
>> are typically:
>>
>> * Excitement by the challenge of helping to empower groups of
>> volunteers worldwide
>> * Willingness to work in a sometimes bureaucratic, sometimes political
>> process
>> * 4 hours per week availability[2]
>> * International orientation
>> * Very good communication skills in English
>> * Ability to work and communicate with other cultures
>> * Strong understanding of the structure and work of affiliates and the WMF
>> * Communication skills in other languages are a major plus
>> * Experience with or in an active affiliate is a major plus
>>
>> With the help of the Affiliations Committee, 2012 has been an exciting
>> year of transformation for the movement with the introduction of new
>> types of affiliation. This means that the workload of the Committee
>> has increased and diversified and help is wanted! Currently many
>> applications to become a Chapter, Thematic Organization or User Group
>> are in the pipeline and can use your attention and dedication!
>>
>> You can send your applications with your name, contact data (e-mail,
>> wiki username), experience and motivation to join to the AffCom email
>> address, affcom AT lists DOT wikimedia DOT org by January 12, 2013.
>> You will get a confirmation that your application came through.
>>
>> Members are usually selected every twelve months for staggered two
>> year terms. The applications will be considered by the current members
>> and outgoing members and Committee advisers, who are not seeking
>> re-selection.
>>
>> Since I will be a candidate for re-selection myself, this process will
>> be managed by another committee member, Lodewijk Gelauff. I hope for
>> many suitable applications. If you have any questions, please don't
>> hesitate to email me or Lodewijk[3] privately. We are happy to chat or
>> have a phone call with anyone about our work, if this helps them
>> decide to apply.
>>
>> Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you
>> are interested.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bence Damokos
>> Chair,
>> Affiliations Committee
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee (please
>> follow the links and familiarize yourself with our work)
>> [2]: Our member standards of participation are at:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Standard_…
>> [3]: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Effeietsanders
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