[Wikimedia-l] Which Wikipedias have had large scale bot creation of articles this year?

[Strainu]

2013/11/25 Steven Walling <swalling at wikimedia.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> My team is doing some background research in to Wikipedia article creation
> right now.[1] One question I'd like answer is which Wikipedias are
> currently (i.e. this year) running bots to create many articles.

Hi Steven,

What qualifies as "many"? On ro.wp, Andrebot is creating sections of
articles about the population of villages/communes in Bulgaria,
Hungary and Croatia, also creating articles where they do not exist.
That will probably amount to a few hundred articles by the end of the
year.

Strainu

>
> I know that Lsjbot has run (or is running) on Swedish (sv), Cebuano (ceb),
> and Waray-Waray (war). It seems to me that, by looking at the stats for new
> articles per day,[2] Dutch (nl) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias might have
> also been running bots? Am I wrong?
>
> I'll be posting more about our article creation research work soon. We'll
> need feedback from non-English Wikipedians in particular, since as a team
> we only have extensive experience creating articles on enwiki.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> --
> Steven Walling,
> Product Manager
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/
>
> 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
> 2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm
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