Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-25 Thread Iolanda Pensa
Il giorno 17/mar/2014, alle ore 16:56, Dario Taraborelli ha scritto: > I also wanted to make a bold proposal to the list. We’ve been discussing for > a while this notion of "topic pages”, i.e. reviews on the state of the art of > research on topic areas of key interest to the Wikimedia communi

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-19 Thread Iolanda Pensa
hi dario how about opening the page on meta? it seems to me a very relevant approach, also to take advantage of the content discussed on this mailing list and to archive it more easily for everybody. thanks and thanks siko also for your hints. all the best iolanda Il giorno 17/mar/2014, alle ore

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-18 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello Iolanda, About the bot articles I wrote some years ago in my German handbook of the International Wikipedia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ziko/Handbuch-Allgemeines See also my contribution to Language Problems and Language Planning in 2009. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/j

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-17 Thread Dario Taraborelli
this is a fascinating thread, thanks for starting it, Iolanda. For his PhD dissertation, Alan McConchie studied the impact of automated or bulk-imported geodata on the growth and activity of the OSM editor community. I am copying him as he might have some insights to share. I also wanted to ma

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-17 Thread Iolanda Pensa
thanks for the very valuable information. there is a History of Wikipedia bots [1]; I added your hints in the session ""rambot" and other small-town bots”. please do not hesitate to remove, improve, correct. yes, I am personally interested in geographic information (and its balance/unbalance)

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-17 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 16, 2014, at 2:14 PM, R.Stuart Geiger wrote: > There are lots of papers about bots which throw out the example of Rambot for > a few sentences without dwelling on the case too much -- I'm certainly guilty > of this, so I won't vanity cite them. However, Niederer and van Dijck [1] > spend

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The lack of documentation about the Chinese villages, district et al, the lack of a discussion is actually what should make it of interest. All this data is available in Wikidata and you can search for 郭坑镇 in several Wikipedias and get a positive result. One of the options is to see this infor

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
R.Stuart Geiger, 16/03/2014 19:14: To Iolanda, this question depends a bit on how you're approaching this topic. I'm not sure about Iolanda, but for instance it.wiki's "progetto comuni italiani" (Italian municipalities WikiProject) around 2005 is commonly cited as the single thing that brough

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-16 Thread R.Stuart Geiger
Hi! Gerard is right that Rambot is ancient history, but that's precisely why I think it is fascinating. Gerard, I would love to hear more about the upload of all the municipalities in China, but it sounds like nothing has been written up yet. Can you give any links to where any discussions are taki

Re: [Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-16 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, More interesting than what was written about the upload of US municipalities on en.wp is the upload of all the municipalities of China. It has been uploaded including the structure to higher level administrations. Yes, there is the rambot stuff, but it is ancient history by now. Thanks,

[Wiki-research-l] uploads of municipalities (rambot)

2014-03-16 Thread Iolanda Pensa
I was wondering if you know about papers and research related to the upload of municipalities on Wikipedia. I refer to rambot [1] but also to similar experiences on other linguistic editions of Wikipedia and municipalities of other countries thank you very much regards, iolanda/iopensa [1] htt