Andrew Lih’s book The Wikipedia Revolution has a chapter Then Came the Bots [1] which has a really nice description of Derek Ramsey’s rambot, which created articles about cities using US Census data.
//Ed [1] http://books.google.com/books?id=39NOwajk3okC&lpg=PA1970&pg=PT157#v=onepage&q=Then%20Cam%20ethe%20Bots&f=false PS. Not really sure if that googlebooks URL will work :-) On Jan 15, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > is there a list bot-generated articles or, simpler, a list of known bots that > have been responsible for the creation/renomination/merging of articles on > enwiki? > > Cheers, > > -- > Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
