Hi all,
In Chinese Wikipedia, there're no such bots to create lots of biological
articles - Ranyv, one of my colleagues there, said that Chinese is not a
language adopting the Roman alphabet, thus it is difficult to generate
translation names for those species - unlike Vietnamese and others, they
As well as finding out where this has happened, it would be good to
have some cases of where bots went bad explained. My main concern
would be leaving a bot to create thousands of articles but in the
process creating a headache for limited numbers of maintainers, such
as article copy-editors,
On sv:wp our main headaches has not been technical problems in bots but
inconsistencies (errors) in sources.
For our lakes the hydrological authorities has in some cases called a
group of nearby and/or conneced lakes with a plural name, like
Pikelakes, while the mapauthorities call them
On 27 November 2013 13:43, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote:
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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
Fæ skrev 2013-11-27 15:24
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%*.
Very interesting you also mention this level of problematic articles. We
has found
Thanks all for thinking along.
We have found the cause of the unbelievable growth in page views, and it turns
out to be an bug indeed.
Around August 2013 a site change caused internal housekeeping messages to be
counted as page views by our webstatscollector software.
As the patch was rolled
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Erik Zachte ezac...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Special:CentralAutoLogin/createSession
Special:CentralAutoLogin/start
You should also remove anything else beginning with Special:CentralAutoLogin/.
Maybe Special:MWOAuth/ and Special:OAuth/ too.
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Brad Jorsch
Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 27/11/2013 20:38:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Erik Zachte ezac...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Special:CentralAutoLogin/createSession
Special:CentralAutoLogin/start
You should also remove anything else beginning with Special:CentralAutoLogin/.
Maybe Special:MWOAuth/ and
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
December 5, 2013 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review
However we have seen a 20-30% drop in pageviews coming out of this tool
http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php
Mr.Z-man has looked into it here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mr.Z-man/pageview but has not seem to
have found the reason yet.
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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