Lsjbot

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Lsjbot

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A typical article by Lsjbot in the Swedish Wikipedia
Basic data

developer Lars Sverker Johansson (LSJ)
Publishing year 2009
programming language .NET Framework , C #
category Wikipedia bot
License unknown
German speaking No
Lsjbot in the Swedish Wikipedia
Screenshot of an article by Lsjbot
Typical article on cities, administrative districts and regions, generated in 2016 by Lsjbot in about 5 seconds

Lsjbot is a bot operated by Lars Sverker Johansson ( acronym Lsj ) , which generated short Wikipedia articles (“stubs”) in Swedish as well as in Cebuano and Wáray-Wáray , two languages ​​spoken in the Philippines , from digital information sources and databases .

On June 15, 2013, the Swedish-language Wikipedia passed the one million article threshold with an article created by Lsjbot on the butterfly species Erysichton elaborata . At this point in time, around half of the article inventory on Swedish Wikipedia was bot-generated. About a third of Lsjbot's articles were created for Swedish Wikipedia. In August 2013 Lsjbot generated the most articles per day for a Wikipedia with about 7200 articles for the Swedish Wikipedia.

According to The Wall Street Journal , Lsjbot had already posted around 2.7 million articles in Wikipedia in July 2014, which at that time corresponded to around 8.5 percent of the entire inventory of Wikipedia. For article production, Lsjbot accessed databases such as the Catalog of Life , apparently using outdated offline copies. Lsjbot wrote articles on Filipino cities for the Philippine Wikipedia.

After the interview with Sverker Johansson in the Wall Street Journal , Lsjbot received international media coverage. Critics noted that the work "Lsjbots" resulted in a mass of articles with superficial and rudimentary information. The "bot-generated articles" focus on quantity instead of quality.

Since November 2015 Lsjbot is no longer active in the Wáray-Wáray-Wikipedia, since November 2016 no longer in the Swedish-language edition.

Web links

Commons : Lsjbot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Meusers: Text Algorithm: Software writes 10,000 Wikipedia articles a day . In: Der Spiegel . June 16, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  2. ^ Björn Lindahl: Robot journalism pushes the boundaries for what's possible . In: Nordic Labor Journal. April 11, 2014, accessed November 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Christoph Behrens, Johannes Boie: Wikipedias Meister . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 17, 2014. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Mirjam Hauck: Wikipedia: Bots write the net full . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 18, 2013, accessed November 16, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Ellen Emmerentze Jervell: For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work. In: Wall Street Journal , July 13, 2014; German edition: How a Swede writes 10,000 Wikipedia articles a day , German WSJ Online , July 16, 2014.
  6. ↑ a b Internet Lexicon: The machine that wrote 8.5 percent of Wikipedia. In: FAZ.NET , July 16, 2014
  7. ↑ Bot program "Lsjbot" writes 10,000 articles a day . In: The Economic Times . July 16, 2014, accessed November 16, 2014.
  8. ↑ Alex Hern: Wikipedia: meet the man who has edited 3m articles . In: The Guardian . August 5, 2014, accessed November 16, 2014.
  9. ↑ James Dean: Wikipedia author of 3m entries plans British Library lists . In: The Times . July 16, 2014, accessed November 16, 2014.
  10. ^ Toby Skinner: The world's most prolific writer . In: Norwegian Magazine. September 2014, accessed November 16, 2014.