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Pie chart of all edits to the English Wikipedia (including bots), with a slice for each thousand of the 10,000 most active Wikipedians, and everyone else in light orange (as of 8 January 2014). Pie chart that only shows edits for the 10,000 most active Wikipedians (with bots), one slice per thousand editors (as of 8 January 2014).
A bot once created up to 10,000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia in a day. [8] According to Andrew Lih, the current expansion of Wikipedia to millions of articles would be difficult to envision without the use of such bots. [9] The Cebuano, Swedish and Waray Wikipedias are known to have high numbers of bot-created content. [10]
The articles, as created by the bot, must be in a generally acceptable state to not overly burden the community with tedious maintenance; The bot complies with all the terms of WP:MASSCREATION, including having a successful WP:BRFA, following widely advertised discussions; For example, a bot could create articles on comets, based on the COBS ...
Some bots can be excluded from leaving these messages by using the {} tags. There are 214 exclusion-compliant bots, which are listed in this category. There are 299 bots flagged with the "bot" flag right now (and over 400 former bots). There is also a range of tools that allow semi-automated editing of large numbers of articles.
Longest time between edits to an article in the main namespace, discounting bot edits: [v] Benda, Guinea from 21:03, 7 March 2009 to 14:20, 11 October 2024 (15 years, 218 days) Longest time between edits to a page outside the main namespace: User:Vulture from 03:02, 19 November 2004 to 17:10, 28 January 2023 ( 18 years, 70 days)
Sverker Johansson, the developer of Lsjbot, shown with a tarsier. The program was responsible for 2.7 million articles as of 2014 (at a rate of 10,000 articles per day), [4] and 9.5 million articles as of January 2019 (at a rate of 4,000 per day), [2] two-thirds of which appear in the Cebuano language Wikipedia (the native language of Johansson's wife); the other third appear in the Swedish ...
To display a template that will help keep track of this accomplishment, add {{User article count ranking}} to your user page. For an alternative list of the same thing with more data see Wikiscan The WP:MASSCREATION of articles that uses any sort of automation requires community approval.
Pie chart of all edits to the English Wikipedia, with a slice for each thousand of the 10,000 most active Wikipedians, and everyone else in brown (as of July 3, 2019). An editor's edit count is often used as a shorthand for determining their level of activity within a wiki, to the extent that it has been said that "one's edit count is a sort of coin of the realm". [2]