Lsj

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Lsj! I am Calaka and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Calaka (talk) 21:29, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

An idea

Hi Lsj, Following the discussion about your bot on Signpost: Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/News_and_notes#The_bot_won_my_contribution_time, I'm here to make a request. Is it feasible to make a gadget/web_app/... such that users could type in the name of a species, and the app would return the wikicode for a species stub in English? The user would thus be fully responsible for checking and adding to the information and pasting it in, but it would still save the user a lot of gruntwork. How hard would this be? Would you like help? Is your bot code open source? Best regards, and thank for your contributions - as I said in the thread I linked, your stubs helped me to contribute pictures languages I do not even know before those species had articles in English, just because they saved effort. --99of9 (talk) 15:30, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

The bot code is not written in a way that makes it easy to convert it into an app, nor am I handy at app programming. The source code (not the most recent version, but close enough) is available here: [1] + [2] (in 2 parts, because it won't fit on a single page), if someone else wants to give it a try. Meanwhile, I would be happy to simply run the bot to create articles on request, e.g. as sub-pages of the user-page of the one making the request, as long as quantities are within reason. Lsj (talk) 19:55, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi my friend, what's the difference between that version and the latest one ? Can you lease add the newest one ? --Helmoony (talk) 17:03, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

I have posted the latest version now, at the link given above. Lsj (talk) 15:40, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi

I could really need some help from a Swedish Wikipedian. I have made an article on Elisabet Höglund which I have nominated for DYK, I could need some help with additional copy-editing and translation of some of the words that perhaps was lost in translation from Swedish to English and links that are without proper redirect. Any help is welcome. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 15:39, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

About adding too stub article on Waray Waray and Cebuano

Looking at the statistics for the waray waray and cebuano. (here) It was weird that cebuano and waray waray already overtook Vietnamese and Japanese. Although I know that that bot is creating articles for living creatures for swedish, cebuano and waray waray languages. Since Cebuano and Waray Waray are local dialets in the Philippines, the number of articles are really unproportional to the reader of the Cebuano and Waray Waray languages. Anyway, I read your page and you said your wife is from Visayas that is why you used that language. I was just wondering why not also add articles for Tagalog language too? --natadecoco (talk) 23:40, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

I will be happy to do the same for Tagalog (or any other language), if there is consensus on Tagalog wp that this is what you want, and if a native speaker can help me with translating the vocabulary that the bot is using. Lsj (talk) 06:22, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Hello LSJ, as per our discussion with Jinjian, I like we can focus next on Ilonggo/ Hiligaynon Wikipedia. It has been in Incubator for 8 years already and it only had around 300 articles. Kindly provide me a list common sentences and terms to be translated and I will ask my Ilonggo colleagues to help you out. --Exec8 (talk) 15:44, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps this could be a way to get Ilonggo off the ground? I will be happy to assist with my bot. Maybe easiest if I will place all the stuff that needs translation on a wiki page somewhere, then both Tagalog and Ilonggo translators can work from there. Will take me a few days to arrange that, though. Meanwhile, a few templates need transferring. The heaviest one is {{Taxobox}} - but don't get it from enwp, copy from cebwp or warwp instead. You might get started on that. Also needed are {{robotmade}}, {{clade}}, and {{commonscat}}. Do any of your Ilonggo colleagues have any biological education? A fair bit of biological terminology will need translation, notably names of animal group (mammals, arthropods, etc.) and taxonomic ranks. Lsj (talk) 15:59, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

I am doing the round of texting to Jinjian as I type this message. There is also a private chat ongoing at Facebook on our strategy. --Exec8 (talk) 03:25, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Regarding your bot!

Hello Mr.Sverker Johansson

I have just read an article about you and your bot on The Wall Street Journal and was amazed that your bot

did a lot of contributions. Well done and Way to go!.

I am interested in your bot and wondering if you could do the same for Arabic Language and whether you

consider doing that for all Languages (I think I am getting ahead of myself!)

I am ready to assist you in translating words from English To Arabic. other than that I'm useless in programming!

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Regards.

--Ahmed1251985 (talk) 11:25, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Creating a personal wiki bot

Hello, fellow AI programmer!

I am a young programmer with special interest in AI, bots and knowledge-gathering. Like you, I spend a lot of time reading and learning in my spare time, but mostly psychology and some medicine.

For years I have manually been writing my own large wikis(I recently started moving my work from Wikispot to Confluence), as a means of efficient learning.

For some time now I've been thinking of speeding this up, by creating a bot to automatically gather relevant and useful datas.

Now I stumbled upon an article of your bot, and I instantly thought you might have alot of valuable knowledge about our common interest ;)

For instance, which programming language did you find most suited for your bot?

How does your bot's "work memory" work, when gathering information and structuring it before making an article of it?

How does your bot decide which sources are reliable to gather from?

I would be happy for answers to these questions, and if it's not too much I may have more questions :)

Kognisjon (talk) 17:17, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata and Lsjbot

Hello,

The articles that Lsjbot has created in Swedish and Cebuano are isolated of others articles about the same subject in other languages in Wikidata.

I've already merge several items, but I think you may improve Lsjbot to search correct item in Wikidata or survey yourself creations of Lsjbot to bind articles with correct item in Wikidata.

(I'm sorry if my English is not perfect, it's not my native language)

--Mywiz (talk) 08:12, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

I have put a lot of effort into the wikidata-matching. The bot always searches for a wikidata match when it creates a new article. But there are several problems, notably that wd does not carefully distinguish settlements from administrative units, and that wd property 1566, which is supposed to connect wd with GeoNames (the source the bot uses), is frequently incorrect. For these reasons, the bot uses a very conservative algorithm for wd matching, rarely making an incorrect match but missing many correct matches. You can find long discussions about these issues in the Lsjbot project archives here. Lsj (talk) 10:11, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Articles created by your bot

Hello! Sorry to disturb you; I've found these two pages on ceb.wiki, ceb:Rubeho Mountains (kabukiran sa Morogoro Region) and ceb:Rubeho Mountains (kabukiran, lat -6,92, long 36,50), created by your bot back in February. They both seem to be about the Rubeho Mountains in Tanzania, and I can't understand what's the difference. I suppose the bot took the information from some database; do you have any insight? -- Syrio can I help? 11:59, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Apparently duplicate entries in the source database. I have merged them now. Lsj (talk) 12:10, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! :D -- Syrio can I help? 16:02, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Using Lsjbot to create articles in Tunisian or Algerian in Wikimedia Incubator

Dear Mr., I am working for several years on creating a Wikipedia in Tunisian or Algerian Arabic. The two projects are still absolutely short. I ask if you can use Lsjbot to create articles on these two Wikipedia editions available in Wikimedia Incubator. --Csisc (talk) 09:43, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Who is going to update all these outdated spider articles?

According to the World Spider Catalog, there have been 8,476 taxonomic changes to spider species since you created all the spider articles on ceb, war, and sv Wikipedias back in 2013. In other words, 8,476 species have been synonimized (which would require merging the article), moved to a different genus (which would require renaming the article), or declared invalid/nomem dubium/etc (which would require deleting the article). As far as I can tell, no one on those wikis has performed ANY of these updates (other than myself, but I quickly gave up). Are there any plans for Lsjbot to update the articles in question or are they just going to be left to rot? Kaldari (talk) 20:08, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Translation request

Hello Lsj After your creation of Colombier NE, would you also write / translate the article of Isabelle de Charrière (Q123386) for the Cebuane Wikipedia? That would be appreciated. Boss-well63 (talk) 17:39, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi!

Hello, I apologize for the inconvenience. I am the administrator of the Wikipedia in the Venetian language (vec.wiki). Could you help us create some pages on living species? Thanks in advance for the answer. I hope it is positive! Best regards. --Fierodelveneto (talk) 21:12, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Updating Cebuano Wikipedia with recent GNIS name changes

Hi! I've been working with a team of mappers on updating OpenStreetMap to reflect the recent renaming to remove Sq___ from the names of locations in the US. https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-completes-removal-sq-federal-use

As we've been going through locations on the map we've found a number of links to Wikidata, which has also been updated to reflect the name change. Many of the entries we came across in Wikidata appear to have been copied from Cebuano Wikipedia, which had pages created from original GNIS source data. Of course, that source data is out of date now that all the Sq___ names have been changed.

I see that you've been doing a lot of work with Cebuano Wikipedia with some good automation. Is there any chance you might be able to help update the corresponding entries in Cebuano Wikipedia? Djournal (talk) 15:11, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Can be done without too much trouble. Do you have a list with the Wikidata objects in question?

BTW, I am not active on enwp, so this is not a good place to contact me. Just luck I saw the message this time. Better to contact me at my talk page on cebwp. Lsj (talk) 15:51, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

A kitten for you!

WikiTG99 (talk) 06:44, 27 January 2024 (UTC)