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

Mon Jun 17 10:43:43 UTC 2013

In the beginning there were a mass of article created manually that was 
substandard and which today would not be accepted as proper articles

A little later (several year ago now) a mass of articles were 
botgenerated that were substandard and could not be seen as proper 
wp:articles

We have since long learned how to write good articles created by our 
editors.

We are just now, on a few wikiepdiaverisons, learning how to create good 
articles by bots, that give both facts, content, context and knowledge 
(also using the new new valuable tool Wikidata  which is a good 
component but not all that is needed)

I am proud to be active in one of these versions mastering this new 
intellectual challenge, of huge value in providing free knowledge for all.

And as shown earlier we have learned that this actually helps recruting 
and keeping editors

Anders

Hubertl skrev 2013-06-17 12:09:
> Payin´ peanuts, gettin´ monkeys
>
> Servin´ facts, gettin´ idiots.
>
> An unmanageable, not maintainable mass of articles is the best way to 
> breed idiots. Because facts do not create knowledge.
>
> If that is our goal, then automatically created Wikipedias ar the best 
> way to solve one of our biggest problems, namely the permanent loss of 
> authors.
>
> Maybe it is completely sufficient if you know that somewhere facts are 
> stored in a most possible stupid form.
>
> I started more than fifty years ago learning about facts, facts 
> without understanding. But nine years ago I startet to learn something 
> about knowledge, understanding and correlations.
>
> Why do not you need people like me? If we have bots now?
>
> Do we want to make ourselves more important with impressive numbers?
>
> Hubertl!
>
> The german language Wikipedia has no single article that was generated 
> by a bot. I'm proud of it. If this would take place in de:WP, many 
> people will leave this project. With certainty.
>
> Anyway, that does not matter, a bot is probably much better for monkeys!
>
> Am 16.06.2013 14:51, schrieb Nurunnaby Chowdhury:
>> Congratulations swedish wikipedians!!!!
>>
>> *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive*
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>>
>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> wittylama.com
>>> Peace, love & metadata
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
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