[Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

[Liam Wyatt]

grattis mina kompisar!
*Jag känner en bott, hon heter Lsjbot, Lsjbot heter hon...*

It looks like Polish will be the next to hit the symbolic number:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000.2B_articles

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On 16 June 2013 22:39, Tonmoy Khan <tonmoy.du at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations!!!
>
> Tonmoy
> On Jun 16, 2013 6:30 PM, "Patricio Lorente" <patricio.lorente at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Congratulations to the swedish wikipedians!
> >
> > 2013/6/16 Anders Wennersten <mail at anderswennersten.se>:
> > > Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a
> > bot
> > > generated article of a butterfly
> > > http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysichton_elaborata.
> > >
> > > The bot behind this article is Lsjbot who creates articles from the
> > database
> > > Catalogue of Life
> > > http://www.catalogueoflife.org/services/res/2011AC_26July.zip which
> > > (complemented by other databases) which holds data of around 1.5
> million
> > > species. The bot genrates about 5000 new articles per day and has
> > generated
> > > just under 400 000 of the sv:wps million and continues...
> > >
> > > The guy who runs he bot is a member of the Swedish chapters board
> > > http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kandidater_2013/Sverker_Johansson and is
> > in his
> > > civil life a University teacher. In this capacity he is also a guest
> > > lecturer at the university of the Phillipines where he stayed the last
> > > couple of months (and the bot was on hold). He is there active in
> > > Cebuano-Wikipedia http://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unang_Panid and
> > supporting
> > > their local community, and he is now running his bot on their wikipedia
> > as
> > > well as on the Warai-Warai Wikipedia
> > > http://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syahan_nga_Pakli. So perhaps at the end
> > of the
> > > year these two language versions will also pass the 1 million mark!
> > >
> > > Anders
> > > PS out other major botgenerating effort of all lakes in Sweden is also
> > > making very nice progress, done 25% of all DS
> > >
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