[Wikimedia-l] Status Botgeneration of articles on sv:wp

[Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada]

Nice work on sv:, congrats! Your post contains some interesting stuff for
me. I'm searching info about other bots currently creating stubs. I hope to
compile all that info in a user subpage.


2013/9/1 Anders Wennersten <mail at anderswennersten.se>

> LsjBot has now finished generating articles of all animals and insects. it
> become close to 1 M. The articles are fine [1] and represent increased
> knowledge, but have problably only have had a limited effect on access to
> and edits on sv:wp. Sverker will after a pause continue with all plants (a
> few 100 thousands) and then plan to put all data in Wikidata
>
> NaskoBot is now 95% ready generating articles on all Swedish lakes, 50.000
> (whereof a third not even having a name..) [2]. These articles are seen as
> very sound and really better then the ones manually created. Here we see
> these have generated an increased participation and edits as people now can
> get a proper links to all lakes in other geographic articles, and it is
> easy to complement the generated lake articles with local info and photos.
> We know these article generate "new" accesses, but it is still too early to
> know how many and how it will effect earlier webbsites with some of this
> info
>
> Our next initiative we are working with is to get all data of Swedish
> communes, cities and towns 100 % correct in Wikidata (and also a
> semiautomatic update link to Wikidata from the Swedish statistical
> authorities databases). We thought our articles on these subjects were
> fine, but find we need to put in 6-9 month time to get the data from fine
> to 100% correct, and all the relevant data elements in place in Wikidata
> even if it only a few thousand articles . When we are ready we will have
> all the base data for these entities taken from Wikidata (not giving much
> improvement) but more important we will be able to provide 100% quality
> data for other language versions to semiautomatic get data (or generate
> articles)  of these subjects, where we feel a special responsibility to
> secure global quality for.
>
> We are familiar with the impressive work Cheersbot has done on vi:wp (a
> few hundred thousand article generated, on plants, geographical entities)
> and of course some knowledge of the work on nl:wp (several hundred
> thousands of articles generated), they were the one who inspired us. But
>  we are missing insight from initiatives on other language versions.
>
> Are there other experiences that can be shared or is there a metapage or
> does it exist a maillist more dedicated to discuss these issues? (it is
> close to wikidata issues but it is not about the technicaliites of Wikidata
> hut more about how to implement use of basic data that involves special
> challenges outside of the wikidata technique)
>
> Anders
>
> [1] example spider from Ljsbot https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**
> Hersilia_%28insekt%29<https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hersilia_%28insekt%29>
> [2] example lake from NaskoBot https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**
> Blattnikselet <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattnikselet> list of lakes
> in a commune https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Lista_%C3%B6ver_insj%C3%B6ar_
> **i_Sorsele_kommun_%281-1000%29<https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_insj%C3%B6ar_i_Sorsele_kommun_%281-1000%29>note the many without a name and the link to googlemap with flag to all
> lakes
>
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