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 but
also by cebuan Wikipedia and by Warai-Warai Wikipedia.
May be it's the time to have only bots to write in Wikipedia? I hope
that in future the number of articles will be counted considering at
least a small content ad not only a template in a page, because the use
like this will discourage the communities of editors.
Regards
On 16.06.2013 13:30, Anders Wennersten wrote:
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 Lsjbot who creates articles from the
database Catalogue of Life
http://www.catalogueoflife.org/services/res/2011AC_26July.zip which
(complemented by other databases) which holds data of around 1.5
million species. The bot genrates about 5000 new articles per day and
has generated just under 400 000 of the sv:wps million and continues...
The guy who runs he bot is a member of the Swedish chapters board
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kandidater_2013/Sverker_Johansson and is
in his civil life a University teacher. In this capacity he is also a
guest lecturer at the university of the Phillipines where he stayed
the last couple of months (and the bot was on hold). He is there
active in Cebuano-Wikipedia http://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unang_Panid
and supporting their local community, and he is now running his bot on
their wikipedia as well as on the Warai-Warai Wikipedia
http://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syahan_nga_Pakli. So perhaps at the end
of the year these two language versions will also pass the 1 million
mark!
Anders
PS out other major botgenerating effort of all lakes in Sweden is also
making very nice progress, done 25% of all DS
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