Talk:Waray Wikipedia

Rationale for the very large size of the Waray-Waray Wikipedia?

Has anyone read any reliably sourced information in the media or elsewhere that provide the why of the extremely large size of the Waray-Waray Wikipedia, in view of the small number of active editors and small number of edits on each page?

As it stands, the article seems to describe and quantify the phenomenon, but makes no attempt to explain it. As an encyclopedia, we endeavor to do both.

Cheers. N2e (talk) 05:24, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Is it reliable source to explain the phenomenon? Ashik (talk) 13:12, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

I have no idea. I can't read whatever language that is in. N2e (talk) 03:34, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Robot generated articles based on taxonomic data for different species. --2601:7:8100:229:5CB2:1972:CD52:A3A3 (talk) 01:54, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

That may, or may not, provide an explanation; I don't know. But my question is do we have any reliable source that might be cited so that this article might be improved, and more fully describe the phenomenon. N2e (talk) 03:34, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

@N2e:

"Wikistats summaries show that some language editions are populated almost entirely by bot-created stubs – like the Cebuano and Waray-Waray Wikipedias, which rocketed to almost one million articles this year despite tiny editor networks that are unlikely to fill in those blanks anytime soon." (Meet the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia’s Massive Data Trove By Ashik Siddique, wired.com, December 27, 2013);

Waray-Waray Wikipedia: 88% Bot article creations only - Wikipedia Statistics, WikiStats by Erik Zachte at stats.wikimedia.org. --Atlasowa (talk) 17:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, Atlasowa. That Wired article looks exactly like the sort of reliable source that is needed in order to improve this article. I don't have time just now, but expect to get back and read it in the coming days. Best, N2e (talk) 19:51, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

I've incorporated the article, a Wikipedia stats page, and a Philippines news article about the Waray Wikipedia hitting a million articles. Also found this user page for user Lsj, a Swedish physicist married to a Filpina. His Lsjbot is responsible for more than 1.5 million edits related (according to his page) to adding species names to the wiki. He's done the same for Cebuano Wikipedia. But I suppose this is WP:OR. — ℜob C. alias ALAROB 01:06, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Here's an article about it in the Wall Street Journal.[1] It refers to "two versions of Filipino" (sigh), but it doesn't get any clearer than that. Hardly OR by now.

Peter ^Isotalo 01:53, 9 February 2015 (UTC)