Hoi, Lets talk Thanks, Gerard
On 16 June 2014 13:29, Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se> wrote: > we have now spent one year trying to use Wikidata operationally, in our > botprojects, but found it is impossible in the state it is now, from many > perspectives. It has been a big disappointment but we hope it will look > better a year from now > Anders > > > > Gerard Meijssen skrev 2014-06-16 12:44: > > 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 <m...@anderswennersten.se> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >>> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >>> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>