Is there any evidence, that the quality of bot edits is higher than edits by humans?
LB > Hoi, > Because once it is a requirement and not a recommendation, it will be > impossible to reverse this. The insidious creep of more rules and > requirements will make Wikidata increasingly less of a wiki. Arguably most > of the edits done by bot are of a higher quality than those done by hand. > It is for the people maintaining the SPARQL environment to ensure that it > is up to the job as it does not affect Wikidata itself. > > I think each of these argument holds its own. Together they are hopefully > potent enough to prevent such silliness. > > Thanks, > GerardM > > > On 19 November 2015 at 08:55, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So, the page that Markus points to describes heeding the replication lag >> limit as a recommendation. Since running a bot is a privilege, not a >> right, why isn't the "recommendation" a requirement instead of a >> recommendation? >> >> Tom >> >> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Markus Krötzsch < >> mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: >> >>> On 18.11.2015 19:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >>> >>>> Andra Waagmeester, 18/11/2015 19:03: >>>> >>>>> How do you do add "hunderds (if not thousands)" items per minute? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Usually >>>> 1) concurrency, >>>> 2) low latency. >>>> >>> >>> In fact, it is not hard to get this. I guess Andra is getting speeds of >>> 20-30 items because their bot framework is throttling the speed on >>> purpose. >>> If I don't throttle WDTK, I can easily do well over 100 edits per >>> minute in >>> a single thread (I did not try the maximum ;-). >>> >>> Already a few minutes of fast editing might push up the median dispatch >>> lag sufficiently for a bot to stop/wait. While the slow edit rate is a >>> rough guess (not a strict rule), respecting the dispatch stats is >>> mandatory >>> for Wikidata bots, so things will eventually slow down (or your bot be >>> blocked ;-). See [1]. >>> >>> Markus >>> >>> [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bots >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
