User:Amanbhatia~simplewiki/SimplifyBotTalk
I am relatively new to Simple English wiki. I was wondering if we could have a bot look at articles from the English wiki and see if they are 'simple enough' to be included in this wiki, otherwise 'simplify' them. Is there already any such bot? Otherwise if people agree to the idea, I am willing to program one.
Amanbhatia (talk) 10:47, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
- You can't make a bot that can simplify/write whole articles. That's what users do. Bots are for repetitive tasks such as adding Interwikis or Categories. Maybe you could make a bot that could simplify articles from En wiki but 1. I imagine it would be very hard to program and 2. It would make us as editors here redundant. FSM Noodly? 20:21, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
- My plan is not to make editors redundant. Such a bot would indeed be very difficult to code. My idea of a bot is a semi-automatic bot. It may be able to identify which articles from En wiki are already 'simple enough' to be included on Simple wiki. (One definition of 'simple enough' could be articles that contain words from a subset of the Basic English 1500). The bot could assist editors in the translation from En to Simple En. With some amount of NLP, the bot might be able to break up the sentence with relative clauses etc. into separate sentences and perform more complex tasks on its own (Machine translation from English to Simple English is much more easier than translation from English to another language). Bot-created articles would then be edited/proofread by humans.
The only issue with my idea might be the complexity of the program. Regarding editors becoming redundant, that seems to me the stuff Sci-Fi movies like I, Robot are made of :D --Amanbhatia (talk) 09:01, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
- My plan is not to make editors redundant. Such a bot would indeed be very difficult to code. My idea of a bot is a semi-automatic bot. It may be able to identify which articles from En wiki are already 'simple enough' to be included on Simple wiki. (One definition of 'simple enough' could be articles that contain words from a subset of the Basic English 1500). The bot could assist editors in the translation from En to Simple En. With some amount of NLP, the bot might be able to break up the sentence with relative clauses etc. into separate sentences and perform more complex tasks on its own (Machine translation from English to Simple English is much more easier than translation from English to another language). Bot-created articles would then be edited/proofread by humans.