This is wonderful news, Anders. It made me really happy to read this. Thanks to everyone who worked to make this happen!
rachel On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se > wrote: > Lsjbot has now completed its run of generating articles for all species, > with 310 000 on plants, making the total number generated above 1 300 000 > (source used: Catalogue of Life). With Naskobot, having earlier generated > some 85 000 articles on Swedish lakes and French communes etc., the total > botgenerated articles on svwp are now 1,4 M > > The botgenerating efforts have received overwhelmingly positive feedback > from the svwp community, with comments like: > *for editors it has become more stimulating writing new articles on > related subjects. When we write of a place in Sweden we know that all > mentioned lakes have articles, making the article better and more correct > (no lakes mentioned are spelled incorrectly any longer). Also photo safaris > are more fun when all lakes, even very small ones, are relevant to take > photos of and include in articles > *experts are more attracted participating when they are guided to the > stub from Google. Also we get feedback it is much easier to enter > information on Wikipedia when the base skeleton is there already (taxobox, > category, links in wikidata, picture, base sourceref). We see an increasing > number of University classes in biology given he assignment to write > (expand) articles on (not so known) species > > We are also gladdened by the hard numbers. Reader accesses show a healthy > increase even from our already high number. And a trend of a slight > decrease of editors has now turned into an increase. We can not say for > certain why and it could be temporary but we believe the botgenerated > articles has a part of this positive development. > > Encouraged by this, we will now start what we call Bot Academy. A dozen of > our experienced editors will, with the support from WMSE, learn more of > running bots. First by sessions on basics, common knowledge stuff, in order > for us to be able to use bot as a complement in our editing efforts. And > after that we will have sessions for advanced use, taking in the learning > from Lsjbot and Naskobot, in order to see if also we can find areas where > we from excellent sources can generate articles. > > For 2015 we are contemplating the following botgenerating efforts > *lsj (sverker) will support other versions interested to run Lsjbot. He is > now in discussion with Farsi and Arabic wp, where there are some > interesting technical challenges related to the different alphabeticscript > *we will scan best practices of bot generation on other versions (it, nl, > id, vt, serbocroatia, farsi, ru etc) (it seems we have nothing to learn of > this from the biggest seven...) > *lsj will look into using the database used by Swedish libraries, with > info of authors and books. Would it be feasible to generate articles on > authors? > *for myself I am continuing my initiative with the aim of fully integrate > 100000 article of Swedish geographic entities with wikidata, in order to > by the end to generate, if wanted, up to 100000 articles related to > Swedish geography on 200 other versions. There is a lot needed of quality > improvement of the articles first and also the Wikidata must get better > before this can work, but perhaps it will be possible to get this going for > a subset of articles in 2015 even if the full set will take some years > longer before being ready to deploy > > Anders > for examples, press "slumpartikel" (random artiicle) on > https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Rachel diCerbo Director of Community Engagement (Product) Wikimedia Foundation Rdicerb (WMF) <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Rdicerb_%28WMF%29> @a_rachel <https://twitter.com/a_rachel> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
