Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Hubertl, 18/06/2013 07:00: Hi Johan, Anders Wennersten says: And as shown earlier we have learned that this actually helps recruting and keeping editors ??? It is difficult to draw conclusions about user behavior. The more difficult it is to say something about the behavior of persons, which

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Anders Wennersten
I am happy to see that you, as well as Hubertl, is happy to go on as you always have done. I do not have the ambition to change your view on life, but to reach out to others open to the new opportunities that automation gives us in better reahing our aim free knowledge for all The base fact

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Anders Wennersten, 18/06/2013 09:00: I am happy to see that you, as well as Hubertl, is happy to go on as you always have done. I do not have the ambition to change your view on life, [...] To clarify, my view on life didn't include any item about bot article creation last time I checked.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Per A.J. Andersson
I am a bit suprised about the lack of trying to understand and develop mindsets here. I joined this mailing list the other day in the belief that it was directed at discussing current topics in the Wikimedia community in a constructive manner. So far I have not found overwhelming proof of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach (...)

2013-06-18 Thread Per A.J. Andersson
Very good point. (Personally I think building a localised Wikispecies – with the potential to grow – inside a Wikipedia version is something good.) Many thanks, /Per Wikipedia user Paracel63 2013-06-18, 14:50, skrev Gerard Meijssen: Hear, hear Thanks, GerardM Op 18 jun. 2013 12:08 schreef

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Nathan
Hi Per, The discussions on this list can be heated, and not everyone is always on their best behavior. All the caveats of debate on the Internet apply, and any personality problems you might encounter on Wikimedia projects occur on the lists as well. This is particularly so when, as in this case,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread David Cuenca
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: The base fact figures for sv:wp is Increase of views +23% on yearly basis, WM:DE +3, WMF:Fr +8 (all mature wikipediauser communities), nl with +14 and wm:it with +16 also very good figures (Spain Russia, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Per A.J. Andersson
2013-06-18, 06:34, skrev Hubertl: Loosing our original idea for which this project is donated by thousands of donaters! From which you are paid for. As an unpaid, long term Wikipedian in Residence I do know what I´m talking about. Hello! I'm interested in knowing more of your experience

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 June 2013 16:53, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: great to take advantage of the opportunity to monitor changes in the sv-wp community as a result of this massive automated article creation. For me it would be interesting to know: [suggestions for metrics] Otherwise the same

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Per A.J. Andersson
Many thanks for the resumé. I thought it would be like this, as I've followed the development of the different wikipedias (content and key factors) since 2008. BTW, is there a (searchable) list archive? Best of wishes, /Per 2013-06-18, 17:29, skrev Nathan: Hi Per, The discussions on this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Per A.J. Andersson, 18/06/2013 18:05: Many thanks for the resumé. I thought it would be like this, as I've followed the development of the different wikipedias (content and key factors) since 2008. BTW, is there a (searchable) list archive?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-18 Thread Peter Southwood
That would be very interesting and useful information Cheers, Peter (User:Pbsouthwood) - Original Message - From: David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 16/06/13 15:24, Johan Jönsson wrote: 2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due to a work of bots and to a work of people. It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which would have more people and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Anders Wennersten
In the beginning there were a mass of article created manually that was substandard and which today would not be accepted as proper articles A little later (several year ago now) a mass of articles were botgenerated that were substandard and could not be seen as proper wp:articles We have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Peter Southwood
, 2013 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots) I am totally supportive of the idea to create articles in this way if they are more than a simple infobox with 5-6 stats in it. The bot generated form [1] of the millionth Swedish article

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Dimce Grozdanoski
On 17.06.2013 12:36, Nikola Smolenski wrote: On 16/06/13 15:24, Johan Jönsson wrote: 2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due to a work of bots and to a work of people. It means that this result is contrary to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Ilario Valdelli
: Monday, June 17, 2013 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots) I am totally supportive of the idea to create articles in this way if they are more than a simple infobox with 5-6 stats in it. The bot generated form [1] of the millionth Swedish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Jan Ainali
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots) I am totally supportive of the idea to create articles in this way

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Ilario Valdelli
The use of wikidata instead of a bot is a good practice to provude good contant to all wikipedias because larger communities can control and fix errors instead of providing content by a bot and keep it outdated. Il giorno 17/giu/2013 15:53, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com ha scritto:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Matthew Roth
We just published a blog post from Lennart Guldbransson on the Wikimedia blog about this milestone: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/17/swedish-wikipedia-1-million-articles/ On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote: The use of wikidata instead of a bot is a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hubertl, your e-mail was rude, even if you did not mean it to be. Please remember hundreds of people read every e-mail sent to this list, and civility is expected. Thanks, Asaf On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Per A.J. Andersson p...@telia.com wrote: Hi! Nice to know German language

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Hubertl
Hi Asaf, did you read my mail or is this an automated answer because of using the word monkey? Or is this a just a try like an official muzzle? Really rude for me is, when some Wikipedians think, they have to start a professional service company for transporting simple facts without efforts

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Hubertl
Hi Anders, you wrote: And as shown earlier we have learned that this actually helps recruting and keeping editors Do you have any prove for that or is this just a speculation or your personal wishes? Does this mean that the Swedish community precisely because this botwork has - against the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Hubertl
Am 16.06.2013 15:24, schrieb Johan Jönsson: I would say our experience is that it doesn't affect the number of human editors at all in any way. Hi Johan, Anders Wennersten says: And as shown earlier we have learned that this actually helps recruting and keeping editors ??? It is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Patricio Lorente
Congratulations to the swedish wikipedians! 2013/6/16 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se: Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated article of a butterfly http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysichton_elaborata. The bot behind this article is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Tonmoy Khan
Congratulations!!! Tonmoy On Jun 16, 2013 6:30 PM, Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to the swedish wikipedians! 2013/6/16 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se: Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Martin Rulsch
Well, precisely to the bots. But we can congratulate the Swedish Wikipedians on more than 500k manually created articles: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/BotActivityMatrixCreates.htm Best regards Martin 2013/6/16 Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com Congratulations to the swedish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Liam Wyatt
grattis mina kompisar! *Jag känner en bott, hon heter Lsjbot, Lsjbot heter hon...* It looks like Polish will be the next to hit the symbolic number: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000.2B_articles wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 16 June 2013 22:39, Tonmoy Khan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Nurunnaby Chowdhury
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Ilario Valdelli
I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due to a work of bots and to a work of people. It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which would have more people and more contributors. The next millions of articles will be reached by Polish Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
Impressive numbers. Congrats. Can we have those species stubs and lakes in English Wikipedia? 2013/6/16 Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated article of a butterfly http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Johan Jönsson
2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due to a work of bots and to a work of people. It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which would have more people and more contributors. The next millions

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Anders Wennersten
I meant we should give credit to the extremely clever PEOPLE behind the bots. And stop handling proper bot generated article as second class. Their data is actually better verified then most of the others And what we find is that the bots cannot build knowledge (which is our aim) without the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Article count milestones are nice! However, I remind those who were distracted in 2008 that article count is a largely irrelevant piece of our statistics since 2008; both stats.wikimedia.org and www.wikipedia.org (plus the other project portals) don't use it at all to rank projects, etc.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-16 Thread Per A.J. Andersson
Milestones are nice. They're one big reason for celebrating, once in a while. There are lots of others, but not all are this definable and publicly palatable. Quality projects of various kinds are ongoing all the time, and we need different kinds of carrots to keep up the community interest at