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Man-robot duo owns 2.3m articles on Wikipedia

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ANI Washington

Swedish physicist Sverker Johansson reportedly adds more than 10,000 articles to Wikipedia every day, and has contributed 2.7 million articles which constitutes for 8.5 percent of Wikipedia.

Johansson works as an administrator, and has degrees in linguistics, civil engineering, economics and particle physics, The Verge reported.

He covers a wide range of articles on various topics such as bugs, beetles, and butterflies, and is reportedly particularly proud of his work highlighting towns in the Philippines.

However, Johansson uses a robot to add entries, which has taken criticism from other contributors who accuse him of creating unhelpful and boring pages, the report added.

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First Published: Jul 16 2014 | 4:10 PM IST

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