For a very long time Finland was part of Sweden. Maybe that explains why the Finns now always love to compete with Swedes. And when I noticed that Swedish Wikipedia is much bigger than the Finnish one I started to challenge people in my trainings: we can’t let the Swedes win us in this Wikipedia battle!

I was curious about how they did it and later I found out they had used ”secret” weapons: bots. So when I was visiting Wikimania on London on August I did some video interviews related to the subject.

First Johan Jönsson from Sweden tells more about the articles created by bots and what he thinks of them:

Not everyone likes the idea of bot created articles and also Erik Zachte, Data Analyst at Wikimedia Foundation shared this feeling in the beginning. Then something happened and now he has changed his view.  Learn more about this in the end of this video interview:

Now I am curious to hear your opinion about the bot created articles! Should we all follow the Swedes and grow the number of articles in our own Wikipedias?

PS. There are more Wikipedia related video interviews on my YouTube channel on a play list called Wiki Wednesday.