Nice work on sv:, congrats! Your post contains some interesting stuff for me. I'm searching info about other bots currently creating stubs. I hope to compile all that info in a user subpage.
2013/9/1 Anders Wennersten <[email protected]> > LsjBot has now finished generating articles of all animals and insects. it > become close to 1 M. The articles are fine [1] and represent increased > knowledge, but have problably only have had a limited effect on access to > and edits on sv:wp. Sverker will after a pause continue with all plants (a > few 100 thousands) and then plan to put all data in Wikidata > > NaskoBot is now 95% ready generating articles on all Swedish lakes, 50.000 > (whereof a third not even having a name..) [2]. These articles are seen as > very sound and really better then the ones manually created. Here we see > these have generated an increased participation and edits as people now can > get a proper links to all lakes in other geographic articles, and it is > easy to complement the generated lake articles with local info and photos. > We know these article generate "new" accesses, but it is still too early to > know how many and how it will effect earlier webbsites with some of this > info > > Our next initiative we are working with is to get all data of Swedish > communes, cities and towns 100 % correct in Wikidata (and also a > semiautomatic update link to Wikidata from the Swedish statistical > authorities databases). We thought our articles on these subjects were > fine, but find we need to put in 6-9 month time to get the data from fine > to 100% correct, and all the relevant data elements in place in Wikidata > even if it only a few thousand articles . When we are ready we will have > all the base data for these entities taken from Wikidata (not giving much > improvement) but more important we will be able to provide 100% quality > data for other language versions to semiautomatic get data (or generate > articles) of these subjects, where we feel a special responsibility to > secure global quality for. > > We are familiar with the impressive work Cheersbot has done on vi:wp (a > few hundred thousand article generated, on plants, geographical entities) > and of course some knowledge of the work on nl:wp (several hundred > thousands of articles generated), they were the one who inspired us. But > we are missing insight from initiatives on other language versions. > > Are there other experiences that can be shared or is there a metapage or > does it exist a maillist more dedicated to discuss these issues? (it is > close to wikidata issues but it is not about the technicaliites of Wikidata > hut more about how to implement use of basic data that involves special > challenges outside of the wikidata technique) > > Anders > > [1] example spider from Ljsbot https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/** > Hersilia_%28insekt%29<https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hersilia_%28insekt%29> > [2] example lake from NaskoBot https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/** > Blattnikselet <https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattnikselet> list of lakes > in a commune https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Lista_%C3%B6ver_insj%C3%B6ar_ > **i_Sorsele_kommun_%281-1000%29<https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_insj%C3%B6ar_i_Sorsele_kommun_%281-1000%29>note > the many without a name and the link to googlemap with flag to all > lakes > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l>, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@**lists.wikimedia.org<[email protected]> > ?subject=**unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
