[SKRIVA] Svenska WIkipedia världens näst största

  • From: Ahrvid <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 03:31:00 +0200

(På engelska då artikeln gått på en utländsk lista. Jag är själv inte så 
övertygad om Wikipedias förträfflighet. --AE)
A piece about the Swedish version of Wikipedia presently being the second 
largest (after the English version):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/01/sweden-of-all-places-just-claimed-the-worlds-second-largest-wikipedia/

There
 is an explanation. There is a guy who has programmed a "bot" to extract
 info from different sources and automatically make it into entries for 
the Swedish Wikipedia (and for some reason also the Filipino version):

"Swedish Wikipedia is really the story of one man, Sverker Johansson, and
 his quest to make the site “more democratic.” Johansson developed a 
bot, called Lsjbot, that combs databases, scrapes them for useful 
information and packages them into Wikipedia articles. The bot has, thus
 far, contributed nearly 3 million posts to the Swedish and Filipino 
Wikipedias, many of them about obscure plants, animals or geography. 
It’s next project will be the National Library of Sweden’s catalog of 
authors, which — according to Johansson — contains a number of names that 
Wikipedia’s human tenders have unfairly ignored."

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