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

[Steven Walling]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:50 AM, 梁忠明 <sprconan at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Chinese Wikipedia, there're no such bots to create lots of biological
> articles - Ranyv, one of my colleagues there, said that Chinese is not a
> language adopting the Roman alphabet, thus it is difficult to generate
> translation names for those species - unlike Vietnamese and others, they
> can use the binomial name as the article name. But there are some users use
> AWB to create articles for places, Taipei Metro stations, etc.
>
> As I know, in Vietnamese Wikipedia, such situation happens. I've heard that
> there is a Vietnamese robot user (Cheers!-bot) create lots of articles
> about biological species, making its article count surpassing the Chinese
> (and Portuguese?) one, over 750,000 articles. That sparked a small-scale
> debate among the Chinese Wikipedian community.
>

This was very helpful, thank you!

Can you give me an example of AWB-created articles?

Steven