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Re:Abstract Wikipedia by ppur on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:52PM (#23719019)
It's also interesting to note that, already, bots on some Wikipedias are the largest contributors of articles in that language. The Swedish, Waray, and Cebuano Wikipedias already have an estimated "between 80% and 99% of the total" all written by one bot, Lsjbot [1].

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot

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Re:Abstract Wikipedia by renewiltord on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:57PM (#23719045)
I wonder if lsjbot has increased single contribution users. Wikipedia (or EN Wikipedia anyway) gates article creation but not editing. If other Wikipedias do that as well, then single edit users won't be able to create an article and hence can't contribute. But if lsjbot has created the stub then people can contribute.
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