http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/for-this-author-10-000-wikipedia-articles-is-a-good-days-work-1405305001-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwMzExNDMyWj
bot's edit log: https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Logg/Lsjb...
a few articles randomly picked out of the latest 1000:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urochloa_plantaginea
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiaria_vittata
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutriana_repens
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andropogon_decipiens
thousands of articles here that read "X is a species of grass. It got its name from Y and is described in Z catalog."
Looks like they pulled his articles? I'd love to see an English example. A quality bot would be a hell of a tool.
My mistake, it looks like the articles are just very thin -- not really what I was expecting.
Here's a thread on the topic:
http://wikimedia.7.x6.nabble.com/Fwd-Wikimedia-l-Lsjbot-has-now-started-to-generate-1-1-5-M-articles-of-species-on-sv-wp-td4993567.html
Yeah, very thin. The fact that a bot made news was what impressed me more than the bot itself. And, well, what's happened to wikipedia? I genned a whole lot better quality crap than that and they banned me for a few dozen links.
>banned
Tsk. Losing your touch.
It was almost 2 decades ago. I will say that Jimmy Wales himself had to decide the issue (bastard!) ...my stuff was pretty good (for that era) and a good number of the wiki disciples thought I should be included.