Hoi,
The mail by Anners REALLY deserves attention. It quotes numbers that fly in
the face of conventional wisdom that bots are bad. Evidently, it is quite
the opposite. Given the effects of the Rambot generated articles this
should not be a surprise really.
Given that this subject has so
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
Impressive piece of work. I agree, it is a lot easier to expand on an article
with a well formatted stub than to create a new one if you are not familiar
with the process. I would like to see this procedure extended to other
Wikipedias, including en: for classes of article for which there is
Many years ago... on en.wp, RamBot created thousands and thousands of
articles about towns and cities in the United States. Controversial at the
time but ultimately successful in 'seeding' the content in exactly the way
that Anders described.
Whenever I go to do some New Pages Patrol on en.wp
I think this is great news. Can't wait to see what comes out of the Bot
Academy. I love the name too!
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Many years ago... on en.wp, RamBot created thousands and thousands of
articles about towns and cities in the United
On 17 September 2014 03:36, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote:
Lsjbot
You're doing great work - keep it up!
*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?
If you're
Thanks for the helpful feedback on my mail:
@Peter an Liam perhaps we should replace the name stubarticles with
seed(ing)articles, at least for these botgenerated ones who have all
the bascis in place
@Jane, and besides a nice name Jan Ainali has also made a wonderful logo
