The Tagalog Wikipedia did not use bots, but we had editors doing it manually. Users like Wikiboost, Booster Gold, etc. added hundreds, if not thousands, of articles in this manner, and that is not reflected in the statistics.
Luckily though, this has largely stopped due to community opposition. Josh JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM Block I1, AB Political Science Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Secretary (2013-2014), Wikimedia Philippines Member, Ateneo Debate Society Member, The Assembly Member, Ateneo Lingua Ars Cultura jamesjoshua...@yahoo.com | +63 (917) 841-5235 Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor http://akira123323.livejournal.com On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 8:10 AM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Steven Walling <swall...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > My team is doing some background research in to Wikipedia article creation > right now.[1] One question I'd like answer is which Wikipedias are > currently (i.e. this year) running bots to create many articles. > > I know that Lsjbot has run (or is running) on Swedish (sv), Cebuano (ceb), > and Waray-Waray (war). It seems to me that, by looking at the stats for new > articles per day,[2] Dutch (nl) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias might have > also been running bots? Am I wrong? Hi Steven Indonesia language Minangkabau Wikipedia has also been using bots. The project was started early 2013, and now has 220,800 articles. Unfortunately this project, and other new projects, are not being included in Erik Zachte's reports. http://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_by_size The same team are using the same bots to add content to Indonesian Wikipedia. 100,000 new articles created in October. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaID.htm -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
