User talk:AlexNewArtBot/AlbumLog

Article Bedelia (novel) matched rule \Wtrack 3 points

Article Bedelia (novel) matched rule \Wstudio 4 points

Article Bedelia (novel) matched rule \Wcover 3 points

Total 10 points

Amazing, isn't it, what a bot can do with any given string of letters. You might believe Bedelia is a novel about the music business. However, "track", "studio" and "cover" have many meanings, and as it happens in the novel someone tries to track down a serial killer while the streets are covered in snow. And one year after its publication the book was adapted for the big screen; this was done—surprise!—in a studio.

I'm glad to learn the article scored 10 points. However, I'd be interested to learn how the bot which awarded the points actually helps make Wikipedia a better encyclopaedia. All the best, <KF> 19:29, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

• There is a number of projects and portals on Wikipedia. The people there would like to read, check and fix articles according to their interests. Some of them are daily looking through ~2K of the lists of new articles but it really tedious. The bot provides lists like User:AlexNewArtBot/AlbumSearchResult that makes their work little bit easier. The bot of course have plenty of false positive and negative but it correctly identified that Bedelia (novel) is not an album because the threshold for the inclusion to the list is 14 points (see the rules User:AlexNewArtBot/Album). The rules for the bot are wikitexts that everybody can edit. Sometimes the results are not expected (e.g. the search result for plants include a lot of woodpeckers. Then the logs help, they show all the articles that get the positive scores and which rules were contributing there (e.g. many woodpeckers are of genera Dendropicos and the bot assumed that all dendra... are trees). The logs live for one day until the next run by the bot Alex Bakharev 23:36, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

• • Thanks a lot. <KF> 09:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
  • I've excluded 'track down' now. SunCreator (talk) 15:33, 5 March 2010 (UTC)