Wikipedia bot writes 10,000 articles a day

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Press Trust of India Washington
Last Updated : Jul 16 2014 | 6:02 PM IST
You might think writing 10,000 articles per day would be impossible. But not for this Wikipedia bot!
A single bot programme created by Swedish university administrator Sverker Johansson has written a total of 2.7 million articles, making him the most prolific author, by far, on Wikipedia.
An increasing number of entries on Wikipedia are being authored by automated software, or bots, that pull raw information from databases, then use algorithms to generate text in standardised templates, 'Discovery News' reported.
The bot programme called "Lsjbot" has authored about 8.5 per cent of the total articles on Wikipedia, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Johannson's author bot can generate up to 10,000 new entries a day.
Most items posted by Lsjbot profile animal species or small towns in the Philippines. About two-thirds of the bot's entries are written in Filipino, and one-third in Swedish.
The bot writes and posts the Wikipedia articles automatically.
Wikipedia hosts entries from several such automated software programmes, such as rambot, which is used to generate articles on US cities and counties.
However, Johannson's creation is by far the most prolific wiki bot around, the report said.
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First Published: Jul 16 2014 | 6:02 PM IST

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