This is wonderful news, Anders. It made me really happy to read this.
Thanks to everyone who worked to make this happen!
rachel
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Anders Wennersten <mail(a)anderswennersten.se
Lsjbot has now completed its run of generating
articles for all species,
with 310 000 on plants, making the total number generated above 1 300 000
(source used: Catalogue of Life). With Naskobot, having earlier generated
some 85 000 articles on Swedish lakes and French communes etc., the total
botgenerated articles on svwp are now 1,4 M
The botgenerating efforts have received overwhelmingly positive feedback
from the svwp community, with comments like:
*for editors it has become more stimulating writing new articles on
related subjects. When we write of a place in Sweden we know that all
mentioned lakes have articles, making the article better and more correct
(no lakes mentioned are spelled incorrectly any longer). Also photo safaris
are more fun when all lakes, even very small ones, are relevant to take
photos of and include in articles
*experts are more attracted participating when they are guided to the
stub from Google. Also we get feedback it is much easier to enter
information on Wikipedia when the base skeleton is there already (taxobox,
category, links in wikidata, picture, base sourceref). We see an increasing
number of University classes in biology given he assignment to write
(expand) articles on (not so known) species
We are also gladdened by the hard numbers. Reader accesses show a healthy
increase even from our already high number. And a trend of a slight
decrease of editors has now turned into an increase. We can not say for
certain why and it could be temporary but we believe the botgenerated
articles has a part of this positive development.
Encouraged by this, we will now start what we call Bot Academy. A dozen of
our experienced editors will, with the support from WMSE, learn more of
running bots. First by sessions on basics, common knowledge stuff, in order
for us to be able to use bot as a complement in our editing efforts. And
after that we will have sessions for advanced use, taking in the learning
from Lsjbot and Naskobot, in order to see if also we can find areas where
we from excellent sources can generate articles.
For 2015 we are contemplating the following botgenerating efforts
*lsj (sverker) will support other versions interested to run Lsjbot. He is
now in discussion with Farsi and Arabic wp, where there are some
interesting technical challenges related to the different alphabeticscript
*we will scan best practices of bot generation on other versions (it, nl,
id, vt, serbocroatia, farsi, ru etc) (it seems we have nothing to learn of
this from the biggest seven...)
*lsj will look into using the database used by Swedish libraries, with
info of authors and books. Would it be feasible to generate articles on
authors?
*for myself I am continuing my initiative with the aim of fully integrate
100000 article of Swedish geographic entities with wikidata, in order to
by the end to generate, if wanted, up to 100000 articles related to
Swedish geography on 200 other versions. There is a lot needed of quality
improvement of the articles first and also the Wikidata must get better
before this can work, but perhaps it will be possible to get this going for
a subset of articles in 2015 even if the full set will take some years
longer before being ready to deploy
Anders
for examples, press "slumpartikel" (random artiicle) on
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida
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