Well I guess it's great to see the popularity of Wikidata. That said comparing edit counts has never been really meaningful and we all know it.
So great milestone, does it mean anything more than there is a lot of work going on, I don't know. That said Kudos to all people involved in Wikidata. Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 10:51, Caroline Becker <carobecke...@gmail.com> a écrit : > But... bots are operated, written, and reviewed by real humans ? Like if I > spend 2 hours adding "painting by Vincent van Gogh" manually on every > relevant item by hand, how is that more valuable than spending 20 minutes > to write a bot that does that for me (and can be used for similar tasks) ? > > Caroline > > > Le mer. 20 mars 2019 à 10:45, Gabriel Thullen <gabr...@thullen.com> a > écrit : > > > Sorry about this mail, I hate to rain on somebody's parade but: > > Ever since Wikidata was set up, there have been more edit made by bots > than > > by humans (registered contributor + anonymous contributor), except for a > > few periods in 2017 and 2018. On the other hand, the activity of the bots > > on the English Wikipedia has almost always been lower than the activity > of > > anonymous contributors, and that activity has always been well below that > > of registered contributors. There was one exception, in 2013 where there > > was a spike of bot activity. > > We could also talk about the average number of edits per contributor > which > > appears to be around 100 on the English Wikipedia and 1,200 on Wikidata > > (these numbers are after removing the estimated edits done by bots). > Quite > > a difference. > > The different Wikimedia projects rely on the community to police and > curate > > the content of these encyclopedias and data collections. I am therefore a > > bit wary of what is happening with Wikidata where more edits are still > > being done by bots than by real humans (by "real" I mean "real" not like > > "real" as in the TV series "real humans") > > > > Best regards > > Gabe > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:25 AM Olushola Olaniyan < > > olaniyanshol...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > This is a good news. > > > > > > Cheers!!! > > > > > > Olaniyan Olushola > > > CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd > > > President, Wikimedia Nigeria > > > Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) > > > Co-director Wiki Women Radio > > > www.wikimedia.org.ng > > > sh...@wikimedia.org.ng > > > olaniyanshol...@gmail.com > > > +2348167352512 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 08:52 Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Ariel Glenn, > > > > Thanks for the notification, very interesting. Well, we all know that > > > > making a lot of edits on Wikidata is "easier" or happens quicker than > > on > > > > Wikipedia, for various reasons. But still it is a nice milestone to > > > > congratulate to Wikidata. Hereby. :-) > > > > Kind regards > > > > Ziko > > > > > > > > > > > > Am Mi., 20. März 2019 um 07:58 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen < > > > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > > > Hoi, > > > > > So in stead of calling us all Wikipedia, let us be known as > > Wikidata... > > > > > HUUUUU > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > GerardM > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 07:48, Ariel Glenn WMF <ar...@wikimedia.org > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Wikidata surpassed the English language Wikipedia in the number > of > > > > > > revisions in the database, about 45 minutes ago today.I was > tipped > > > off > > > > > by a > > > > > > tweet [1] a few day ago and have been watching via a script that > > > > displays > > > > > > the largest revision id and its timestamp. Here's the point where > > > > > Wikidata > > > > > > overtakes English Wikipedia (times in UTC): > > > > > > > > > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d > > > > > > www.wikidata.org -r 888603998,888603999,888604000 > > > > > > revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > > revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > > revid 888604000 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d > > > > > > en.wikipedia.org -r 888603998,888603999,888604000 > > > > > > revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > > revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z > > > > > > revid 888604000 at 2019-03-20T06:01:00Z > > > > > > > > > > > > Only 45 minutes later, the gap is already over 2000 revsions: > > > > > > > > > > > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./compare_sizes.py > > > > > > Last enwiki revid is 888606979 and last wikidata revid is > 888629401 > > > > > > 2019-03-20 06:46:03: diff is 22422 > > > > > > > > > > > > Have a nice day! > > > > > > > > > > > > Ariel > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://twitter.com/MonsieurAZ/status/1106565116508729345 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > > > New messages to: 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 and > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > > New messages to: 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 and > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > > New messages to: 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 and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: 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 and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: 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 and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
