Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research on automatically created articles

2016-08-09 Thread WereSpielChequers
I have proposed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazaua for deletion - I assume it was one of the others involved. Our newpage patrollers are pretty experienced at tagging for deletion the pages of spam and clearly non notable articles that get created by the hundred every day. If someone was to was

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research on automatically created articles

2016-08-09 Thread siddhartha banerjee
Hello Everyone, I am the first author of the paper that Denny has referred. Firstly, I want to thank Denny for asking me to join this list and know more about this discussion. 1. Regarding quality, we know that there are issues, and even in the conference, I have repeatedly told the audience that

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research on automatically created articles

2016-08-09 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
There appears to be out-of-policy use of multiple accounts involved in this work. If this is the case, all of these articles may subject to deletion on procedural grounds, completely independently of any real or perceived notability, article quality or research quality. I HIGHLY recommend against

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research on automatically created articles

2016-08-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Denny Vrandečić, 09/08/2016 20:29: 1) the fact that so many of these articles have survived for half a year indicates that there are some problems with our review processes. Does someone want to make an investigation why these articles survived in the given state? Looks like the good old trick

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research on automatically created articles

2016-08-09 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello Denny, I agree with all three points. The experiment reminds me of "babelfish accidents" as we called them in de.WP, and the experimemts of Google and Microsoft to "support" "translations" between Wikipedias. Very strange this repeating "Dick Barbour is legendary in..." Kind regards Ziko

[Wiki-research-l] Research on automatically created articles

2016-08-09 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, I found a paper at IJCAI 2016, which left me quite curious: https://siddbanpsu.github.io/publications/ijcai16-banerjee.pdf In short, they find red links, classify them, find the closest similar articles, use the section titles from these articles to decide on sections, search for content

[Wiki-research-l] Contribute to the SEMANTiCS Workshops and the DBpedia Day

2016-08-09 Thread Sebastian Hellmann
SEMANTiCS 2016 - The Linked Data Conference Workshops, Tutorials and the DBpedia Day 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany September 12 -15, 2016 _http://2016.semantics.cc/_ *Workshops/Tutorials * This year's SEMANTiCS is starting on September 12th with a full day