Semiautomated editing in Wikipedia: TheAutoWikiBrowser case

Marios MagioladitisSysop in en.wiki,

editor in ar.wiki and de.wiki,autoreviewer and rollbacker in pt.wiki

autoeditor in ru.wiki,autopatrolled in fr.wiki

autoconfirmed in es.wiki, tr.wiki and zh.wiki

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institut für Mathematik

15. September 2011Doktorandenkolloquium

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia founded 15th of January 2001282 languages / 365 million visitors

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Wikipedia

ALL: 19 M / EN: 3,7 M / DE: 1,2 M

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A few people do a lot of work

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Active Wikipedians

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Active Wikipedians and bots

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The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

We still need some rules both on context and layoutWikipedia:Wie gute Artikel aussehenAlt+TAB

Idea: Use (semi-)automated tools to uniformise the style

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The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

We still need some rules both on context and layoutWikipedia:Wie gute Artikel aussehenAlt+TABIdea: Use (semi-)automated tools to uniformise the style

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AutoWikiBrowser (AWB)

Alt+TAB

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AutoWikiBrowser in Wikipedia

Page edits since Wikipedia was set up: 485,598,110(Special:Statistics)Page edits since Wikipedia was set up with AWB: 120,782,035(toolserver.org/AWB)Edits with AWB / Total edits: 24,87%

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AutoWikiBrowser: Features

WP:GENFIXES

Alt+TAB

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Regular expressions

Wikipedia:Regular expressions

Alt+TAB

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Code analysis

> 2 million lines of C#633K comments1.6M is C#Many pluginsCode available at SourceForge.net

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Developers

BluemooseLigulemMagioladitisRjwilmsiMaxSemReedy

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AutoWikiBrowser: Pros, cons and future plans

Pros and cons

It works for all wikiprojects and wikiasIt’s open sourceIt works only for Windows

Future plans

Mono and wine (Alt+TAB)PyAutoWikiBrowserWebapp?Firefox plugin?

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A large example of use: Tagging BLPs

Wikipedia:Artikel über lebende Personen (Alt+TAB)

900k+ biographies in en.wiki60k+ biographies with unknown status in 2009Tenths of new entries keep coming daily

Use prexisting categoriesAlways look at the bright side of deathCreate categories by using the textEliminate Dab pages, redirects, etc.Extra problems occured by bands etc.WP:DUCK

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A large example of use: Tagging BLPs

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Vielen Dank!Eυχαριστώ!

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Tschüssi!

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