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

[Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada]

Impressive numbers. Congrats.

Can we have those species stubs and lakes in English Wikipedia?


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 <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<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<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<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<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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