{"id":3734,"date":"2017-02-17T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/https:\/\/morris.cymru\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:28:57","slug":"wicipedia-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/en\/2017\/02\/wicipedia-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"@Wicipedia, an automatic Twitter bot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bjork-tocio-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/morris.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bjork-tocio-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/morris.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bjork-tocio-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/morris.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bjork-tocio-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/morris.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/bjork-tocio.jpg 997w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wicipedia\">@wicipedia<\/a> which is an automatic Twitter bot I thoroughly enjoyed making.<\/p>\n<p>This work was commissioned by Wikimedia UK as a means of increasing engagement with Wicipedia Cymraeg, the Welsh-language version of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>It is an automated Twitter account sharing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;on this day&#8217; historical events,<\/li>\n<li>links to recent new articles within certain criteria of &#8216;interestingness&#8217;,<\/li>\n<li>ideas for articles that anybody can create about notable women in order to contribute to fair gender representation on Wicipedia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see all of these types of tweets on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/wicipedia\">the account itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious the account is run by a custom PHP script which runs on a server and performs calls to the Wikipedia API and Twitter API.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bj\u00f6rk pic by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bj%C3%B6rk#\/media\/File:Bj%C3%B6rk_by_deep_schismic_at_Big_Day_Out_2008,_Melbourne_Flemington_Racecourse.jpg\">deep schismic<\/a> (CC BY)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out @wicipedia which is an automatic Twitter bot I thoroughly enjoyed making. 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