On 27 November 2013 13:43, Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se> wrote: ... > And even if this only is relevant for far less then 1% of all generated > articles it becomes around hundred in total. Many of these cases are quite > complicated to fix (area of lakes, depths) and there is a debate who should > fix these, the botowner (who has generated correctly from sources) or > community people (who have problems finds relevant basedata), or should > these be deleted or rewritten from scratch?
Small error rates are a real challenge. My experience on Commons for large bot work has been long discussions around quality complaints where the level of error was *well below 1%*. The default stance on the English Wikipedia and Commons is that if you make the mess, then you need to clean it up. On the whole, I don't think this is a bad policy, it does however make bot jobs like this a puzzle to get right, in the case of my Geograph categorization work, we managed to reduce error levels from below a known 0.5% to less than a vanishingly small 0.15% (the numbers being so small it became hard to measure or estimate, so this number is conservatively pessimistic). Giving the community easy ways of reporting failures and seeing them get quickly corrected is a good option. Even better is to run large uploads as a project team where the three elements of content experts, bot experts and enthusiastic volunteer editors/re-users are all represented. It may take longer, but the bot writer is far more likely to get praised for good work and any occasional problem just absorbed as part of the project rather than put on the bot-writer's shoulders. This is how I structured the Airliners project <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Batch_uploading/Airliners> there are plenty of other interesting examples on the batch upload project page. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm _______________________________________________ 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>