The code may always be written and and often reviewed by humans but the data clearly is not. There was an instance recently of a bot adding an incorrect date of birth of 1950 to thousands of entries due to a misunderstanding (by its human author) about VIAF file formats
JPS On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:51 AM Caroline Becker <carobecke...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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>
