The number of articles or articles in the English version of Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia, is around 1 million. However, the second largest version is not in French, Spanish or Chinese – it is written in the southern part of the Philippines. The number of articles in this version is more than 1 lakh. And the surprising thing is that most of the Wikipedia articles were written by a person – the sudish linguist Sabar Johanson. But not in the hands, but through an automatic program. The name of this program is LSGEBT.
LSGT
Wikipedia has been using bot or automatic programs for many years to make various types of work easier. They usually work as to fix the Dead Link or create a short article on the site.
In the early 20's, Wikipedia was written by Sabhakar Johanson. It was then that he became acquainted with this automated article-writer bot.
He then created a special program called LSGEBT. It collects information from different online databases and create articles by placing it in certain sentence structures.
For example, an animal may be written at the beginning of an article – 'This X is a Yu Billongs to the Z Family'. Here the X, Wi and Z places are empty. Here x = lion (lion), Y = mammal (mammal), jad = cat (cat). Then the whole sentence stands – 'Lion is a mammal that billongs to the Z cat family.' Thus millions of articles are created.
In this way, the program called LSZBott used to create numerous articles in a specific format or template. It was originally made from the database to the mold of specific sentences made by information – no new words or explanations were made.
The bot has originally created about 2 million articles and geographical places with plants and animals, using biology and geography -based information.
Johanneson's explanation for working in the service language was personal. His wife's mother tongue is serviced. He is the one who helps to create a sentence structure.
Debate
There was intense controversy over the use of LSGEbot in Wikipedia Wikipedia. Grammatical mistakes and informational defects are found in numerous articles made by the boat. The translations were incomplete or wrong because of this problem.
Creating additional numbers of articles is also the cause of this problem. In addition, the editor's shortage becomes difficult to release this huge database error.
Even the proposal to remove the entire service Wikipedia came in 20, which was later canceled.
Another Wikipedian Irvin Sto in the Philippines. You said, some local volunteers are still trying to improve quality and Dr. He also worked with Johanson.
Meanwhile, Wikipedia writer Josh Lim said that the use of the guy has already created credibility problems. There were articles on many French villages in the early stages of Wikipedia, while local issues were insufficient. It becomes a 'shameful' subject. The boat begins with linguistic Wikipedia 'Competition', so that the quality is neglected.
Lim also said that despite the criticism, Johanson's purpose was to expand knowledge with devotion. He said that it is not right to completely exclude bot or automatic technology, but to learn to use it properly.
LSGEBT is inactive since 2021 and the debate is one of the reasons behind it, said Johanans itself.
The Challenge of the Local Language of Wikipedia and the Challenge of Generative AI
Dr. The LSGEbot made by Johannson closed, as it could not produce more readers in Wikipedia. Although there were millions of articles on the site, the reader was thousands. On the other hand, English Wikipedia receives more than 1 million Philippines readers per month.
Wikipedian Josh Lim says it is a reflection of the colonial mentality in the Philippines society, where the mother tongue is underestimated. This creates a shortage of information in the local language. However, he believes that new interest and awareness is being created among people with their own language and Wikipedia can play a major role in it.
Australian researcher Heather Ford says that comparing the details of Wikipedia's Data -based articles and the articles from the people of English Wikipedia, it is understood that the presentation of the information is different on the basis of the language.
Meanwhile, Dr. Johanson insisted that LSGEbot does not create anything new, just the data prepared with data is in the formula. However, general AI (such as ChatGPT) 'innovate' information, which is not real and creates the risk of credibility.
Yet he thinks the generative AI can come in handy to fix linguistic support and style. However, the human editor's verification is essential.
Studies show that up to 3-5 percent of Wikipedia can be made of AI. However, if this number increases, maintenance can become impossible, as it has been in service.
“We are reliable, but we can make mistakes,” Lim said. Therefore, God should not be treated with information. '
References: ABC News
