Hoi,
I blogged about Lsjbot.. [1]. I really hope that a lot of attention is
given in finding the links to existing items in Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/06/wikipedia-to-bot-or-not-to-bot.html
On 16 June 2014 12:25, Anders Wennersten <[email protected]> wrote:
> After having changed job and residence Sverker is now on it again. This
> time Lsjbot will generate some 300 000 articles on plant species. The
> initiative is now receiving full support and even enthusiasm from the
> fellow wikipedians on svwp
>
> It is now close to one year since the 1M article on insects, animal etc
> was generated and we now have had some feedback whereof I here give some
> examples
> *The students on a university veterinary course was given the assignment
> to write article on parasitic worms and put them up om Wikipedia. These
> became excellent: complete and voluminous. This was in many way helped/made
> possible by that there already existed Lsjbot stubs with complete Taxobox,
> iw-links, categories and basic sources. The students are expert on subjects
> not the wikispecialities
> *the experts on animal etc among our Wikipedians has now shifted focus.
> There are species where the authorities disagree on the taxonomy and here
> Lsjbot did not generate any article. among birds there are some 500
> disputed species. These articles our experts now work with, highlighting
> the disputes, why, what and by whom. And when we compare these manually
> created articles we find that on most other language versions, these only
> take data from one authority and are not correctly describing the dispute.
> Perhaps svwp will after this not only be most complete but also most
> correct version on species?
>
> As a side effect (not a goal in itself) we expect svwp to be the second
> biggest version, when it comes to number of articles, by August/September
>
> And when it comes to botgeneration in general, we are continuing our
> researcheffort into generate some 0,3-0,5 M articles on geographic entities
> from all over the world by end 2015/2016 using Wikidata as a source.
>
> Anders
>
>
>
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