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Lsjbot
Sign in to saveLsjbot is an automated Wikipedia article-creating program, or Wikipedia bot, developed by Sverker Johansson for the Swedish Wikipedia. The bot primarily focuses on articles about living organisms and geographical entities (such as rivers, dams, and mountains).
Lsjbot is a computer program created by Sverker Johansson that automatically generates Wikipedia articles for the Swedish Wikipedia, focusing on topics like animals, plants, and geographical features such as rivers and mountains. It matters because it demonstrates how automation can rapidly expand encyclopedia coverage, though it has also sparked debates about article quality and the role of bots in collaborative knowledge projects.
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Key facts
- Software.name
- Lsjbot
- Software.screenshot
- Random Lsjbot article.png
- Software.caption
- A typical article generated by Lsjbot
- Software.developer
- Sverker Johansson
- Software.genre
- Internet bot
- Software.website
- Lsjbot on Swedish Wikipedia
- Software.programming language
- C#
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- pih.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lsjbot
- Image
- Random Lsjbot article.png
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- Lsjbot
- inception
- 2012-01-30
- publication date
- 2012-01-30
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Lsjbot is an automated Wikipedia article-creating program, or Wikipedia bot, developed by Sverker Johansson for the Swedish Wikipedia. The bot primarily focuses on articles about living organisms and geographical entities (such as rivers, dams, and mountains).
According to its description page on the Swedish Wikipedia, Lsjbot was active in the Swedish and Waray Wikipedias and is currently active in the Cebuano Wikipedia, and has created most Wikipedia articles in those languages (between 80% and 99% of the total).