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 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 errors instead of providing content by a bot and keep it outdated.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: > > > Hoi, > > > > Please consider .... there are over 280 Wikipedias in as many languages. > In > > many languages we have few articles. Providing information is our > mission. > > We aim to provide well written articles. The argument is that we do not > > succeed at that. Actually it is not an argument, it is a fact. When the > > Germans feel they do not need bot generated articles, more power to them, > > when they assume that their example is to be copied I truly wonder if > they > > understand the lack of resources in so many languages. > > > > It is fairly easy to find articles that are considered relevant to a > > sizable group of the German populace that are missing.. I am working > > towards providing this information by using Wikidata. The best part (for > > the Germans) is that I urge them to make sure that these articles exist > and > > are well written .. in German. > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > > > PS I blogged about how this can be done several times in the past > > > > > > On 17 June 2013 15:43, Dimce Grozdanoski <dimce.grozdano...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > 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 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. > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> I would say our experience is that it doesn't affect the number of > > human > > >>> editors at all in any way. A couple of people run bots that create > very > > >>> short articles about taxons or other stuff that, to be honest, > probably > > >>> wouldn't have been created otherwise. These articles have very few > > >>> readers. > > >>> Why on Earth would this discourage us? > > >>> > > >>> Our main problem is that browsing Swedish Wikipedia using the "random > > >>> article" button isn't as fun as it used to be. That's probably > fixable. > > >>> > > >> > > >> I am again using the opportunity to remind that all of this will soon > be > > >> completely unnecessary since it should be possible to generate the > > articles > > >> on the fly from Wikidata data. > > >> > > >> you mean to generate on the fly only articles of this kind, not any > > > article. > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list > > >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > >> Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > > >> > > > > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l< > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *http://blog.wikimedia.org/* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l