wrote:
we have now spent one year trying to use Wikidata operationally, in our
botprojects, but found it is impossible in the state it is now, from many
perspectives. It has been a big disappointment but we hope it will look
better a year from now
Anders
Gerard Meijssen skrev 2014-06-16 12:44:
Hoi,
I blogged about Lsjbot.. [1]. I really hope that
a lot of attention is
given in finding the links to existing items in Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/06/wikipedia-
to-bot-or-not-to-bot.html
On 16 June 2014 12:25, Anders Wennersten <mail(a)anderswennersten.se>
wrote:
After having changed job and residence Sverker is now on it again.
This
> time Lsjbot will generate some 300 000 articles on plant species. The
> initiative is now receiving full support and even enthusiasm from the
> fellow wikipedians on svwp
>
> It is now close to one year since the 1M article on insects, animal etc
> was generated and we now have had some feedback whereof I here give
> some
> examples
> *The students on a university veterinary course was given the
> assignment
> to write article on parasitic worms and put them up om Wikipedia. These
> became excellent: complete and voluminous. This was in many way
> helped/made
> possible by that there already existed Lsjbot stubs with complete
> Taxobox,
> iw-links, categories and basic sources. The students are expert on
> subjects
> not the wikispecialities
> *the experts on animal etc among our Wikipedians has now shifted focus.
> There are species where the authorities disagree on the taxonomy and
> here
> Lsjbot did not generate any article. among birds there are some 500
> disputed species. These articles our experts now work with,
> highlighting
> the disputes, why, what and by whom. And when we compare these
> manually
> created articles we find that on most other language versions, these
> only
> take data from one authority and are not correctly describing the
> dispute.
> Perhaps svwp will after this not only be most complete but also most
> correct version on species?
>
> As a side effect (not a goal in itself) we expect svwp to be the second
> biggest version, when it comes to number of articles, by
> August/September
>
> And when it comes to botgeneration in general, we are continuing our
> researcheffort into generate some 0,3-0,5 M articles on geographic
> entities
> from all over the world by end 2015/2016 using Wikidata as a source.
>
> Anders
>
>
>
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