User:Matilda/10 random pages
May 2008
[edit]Inspired in part by User:Peter Ellis and others and see where this takes me - I have looked a long time ago and it would have been good to keep a record as it is one way to see the evolution of the 'pedia. Ages ago it was mostly stubs. Let's see now 23:55, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
| article | description | version & last edited | reason for last edit | size | established | comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shed Media | UK television production company | [1] 1 week 1 day ago | by an anon IP updating info | 5kb | Nov 2006 | |
| History of Haifa | history of an Israeli city | [2] 1 week 6 days ago | by a bot disambiguating | 11.5 kb | 9 April 2008 | copy and paste from the main article - ie breaking out |
| Japanese Twelfth Area Army | WW2 | [3] 1 week ago | by bot adding inter language wikilinks | 5.3kb | 1 December 2007 | 1 editor only really plus a bot adding link to other language wp and somebody fixing up dating |
| Gangland (TV series) | US television program on history channel | [4] today | reverting vandalism | 2.7kb | 1 December 2007 | |
| Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics | sport | [5] 1 week 6 days ago | by a bot adding inter language wikilinks | 8.9kb | 23 June 2004 | tagged as unsourced since Nov 2007 |
| Pudukkottai | Indian city | [6] 3 days ago | by registered user fixing spelling & punctuation marked as minor edit | 8.4kb | 16 May 2005 | 10 deleted edits |
| Charles d'Ambeville | composer | [7] 27 weeks ago | by registered user categorising death date and adding default sort | 313bytes | 13 December 2006 | not even properly categorised as a stub; category really too broad |
| Jens Byggmark | Swedish skier born 1985 | [8] 8 weeks ago | by a bot adding inter language wikilinks | 2.3kb | 29 January 2007 | stub |
| Clymene Dolphin | dolphin endemic to Atlantic Ocean | [9] 6 days ago | by a bot replacing image with commons copy | 5.3kb | 8 February 2004 | referenced but not in-line cites; proper table with threatened status taxonomy etc; picture is only for size comparison but no photo |
| Piercefield, New York | US town pop 305 | [10] 3 weeks, 5 days ago | by a bot adding refs section | 7.5kb | 23 October 2002 | created by User:Ram-Man and updated by User:rambot using automatic article generation techniques but since edited by real people. Includes photo of river nearby, town sign and maps showing location |
Conclusions
[edit]No great bias to the US though I was pleased to pick up at least one of the infamous automatically generated articles on US towns. All articles looked pretty accurate and informative. In 6 cases the most recent edit had been by a bot. In only one case was the most recent edit reverting vandalism. Only one article was a sub-stub but you would still have learned something from it. There was a mix of countries represented, a mix of current and historical information.
