On Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 21:45 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>
wrote:

> What exactly is "bulk article creation"?
>

As the linked discussion says, apparently pnbwiki employed some crude
automatic translation from Urdu to mass-create articles to game this
contest.  The principal user involved is blocked on English Wikipedia for
repeated copyright violations. :-/

   A.


> בתאריך יום ב׳, 10 בפבר׳ 2020, 12:38, מאת Suswetha Kolluru ‏<
> suswetha...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>
>> It has been exactly one month since Project Tiger 2.0 article writing
>> contest has ended. The writing contest began on 10 October 2019 and ran
>> till 11 January 2020.
>> The contest witnessed 331 editors who participated from 16 communities in
>> India :)
>> We are happy to announce that the project saw 12406 articles from all the
>> communities and the Tamil community stands top with 2924 articles
>> created/expanded followed by the Punjabi (Gurumukhi)  community with 1747
>> articles!
>>
>> The list of monthly top contributors list from all the languages is
>> published here[1]
>>
>> We sincerely thank and appreciate all the Wikipedians who have
>> contributed time and effort to create articles and increase content in
>> their respective Indic language Wikipedias, jury members of both hardware
>> support and article writing contest, Wikipedians who have conducted offline
>> events as part of Project Tiger and last but not the least,
>> User:Neechalkaran from Tamil community for creating statistics tool
>> <https://tools.wmflabs.org/neechal/tigerarticle.html?fbclid=IwAR3DtDsuJkP6J6lNV3xbPcG2pW0h5A66IBhem18jAVD5iRgmsmL0S457XwA>
>>  and
>> making it easier for everyone to understand the numbers!
>>
>> We will get back to the top contributors from each community & winner and
>> runner up communities via an IRC soon.
>>
>> Overall stats:
>> Language Articles submitted Articles Accepted
>> Assamese 205 175
>> Bengali 1460 1194
>> Gujarathi 202 201
>> Hindi 417 253
>> Kannada 249 199
>> Malayalam 229 229
>> Marathi 220 97
>> Odia 155 154
>> Punjabi (Gurumukhi) 1768 1747
>> Punjabi (Shamukhi) 3216 3216
>> Sanskrit 19 19
>> Santali 566 566
>> Tamil 2959 2924
>> Telugu 416 24
>> Tulu 32 32
>> Urdu 1377 1376
>>
>> Total number of articles accepted
>> 12406
>>
>> [1]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest/Winners
>>
>>
>> *NOTE:*
>> Following the discussion on bulk article creation
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest#Request_for_comments>
>>  by
>> different community members about using a tool and articles being evaluated
>> by the same volunteer who has created them, we are withholding rewards to
>> Punjabi (Shamukhi) community.
>>
>> --
>> *Best,*
>> *Team Project Tiger.*
>>
>>
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