Lsjbot is a program ( bot ) created by the Swedish physicist and Wikipedist Sverker Johansson for the Swedish Wikipedia [2] . Over time, the program was adapted for the Sebuan and Varay Wikipedia. The name is derived from the nickname of Johansson's main account - lsj , which in turn is an abbreviation for its full name - L ars S verker J ohansson.
| Lsjbot | |
|---|---|
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| Type of | |
| Developer | Sverker Johansson [1] |
| Written on | .NET |
| Interface languages | Swedish , Sebuan , Varay , Dutch |
| First edition | |
| condition | Works |
| Site | sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Användare:Lsjbot |
By June 2017, Lsjbot had created a total of more than 17 million articles. The bot creates articles based on various databases, then they can be translated into other languages.
Content
History
On January 30, 2012 Lsjbot began its activities on the Swedish Wikipedia [3] , on December 25, 2012 - in the Sebuan [4] , on February 7, 2013 - in the Varay [5] .
Until 2015, articles on biological species were loaded, consisting of 1-3 lines of text, a card template, and numerous references to sources (a typical example is Abrahamia ditimena ). Then the bot was reprogrammed to create more complex articles about geographical features (for example, Adairsville ).
As of July 2014, the robot has created over 2.7 million articles, two-thirds of which are on Wikipedia's Cebu (mother tongue of Johansson’s wife), the other third is on Swedish Wikipedia. A robot can create up to 10,000 articles per day.
On June 15, 2013, Swedish Wikipedia reached one million articles (then it was the eighth Wikipedia that achieved this goal). The millionth article was created by Lsjbot, who at that time created 454 thousand articles, which was almost half the number of articles on Swedish Wikipedia [6] . Thanks to Lsjbot, Swedish Wikipedia became the second language section in the ranking by the number of articles, immediately after the English section.
Media Response
After the publication of the article in The Wall Street Journal [7] in July 2014, the world community paid attention to the bot.
Johansson’s activity has caused some criticism from those who believe that the article blanks lack meaningful semantic content, and that the blanks are not created by people [8] . The Sydney Morning Herald compared the bot with Phil Parker , the most published author in human history, who published more than 85 thousand books, each of which was completed in less than an hour using a computer [9] . Johansson objected to critics of his actions, noting that if the bot would not write articles, then “otherwise they will be mostly written by young white male nerds and will reflect the interests of men” [10] .
Notes
- ↑ Sultan Suleimanov. The Swede wrote 2.7 million articles for Wikipedia . TJournal.ru (July 15, 2014).
- ↑ Användare: Lsjbot - Wikipedia
- ↑ https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Bidrag&dir=prev&contribs=user&target=Lsjbot&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=
- ↑ https://ceb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Espesyal:Mga_Tampo&dir=prev&contribs=user&target=Lsjbot&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=
- ↑ https://war.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinaurog:Mga_ámot&dir=prev&contribs=user&target=Lsjbot&namespace=&tagfilter=&start=&end=
- ↑ Gulbrandsson, Lennart. Swedish Wikipedia surpasses 1 million articles with aid of article creation bot , Wikimedia Community Blog
- ↑ Tomlinson, Simon (July 15, 2014). Is this the world's most prolific writer? Meet the Swedish physicist who has written 8.5% of everything on Wikipedia , Daily Mail
- ↑ For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work - WSJ
- ↑ This is how Sverker Johansson wrote 8.5 per cent of everything published on Wikipedia
- ↑ Swedish Wiki ves sets new content record - The Local
Links
- Source code of Lsjbot.
- Writing Wikipedia articles by the million , report by Sverker Johansson at FSCONS (Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit), 11/10/2013.