Cebuano Wikipedia, the world's second-largest Wiki edition, is almost entirely written by a bot—report

The Cebuano Wikipedia is the second largest Wiki edition in the world. It also happens to be written almost entirely by a single bot.

According to a report published by Vice, a global administrator named Guilherme Morandini found that 99.12 percent of articles in the Cebuano Wikipedia were created by a bot.

This bot is known as the "Lsjbot", which was created by Swedish physicist Sverker Johansson. A bot is a program designed to perform tasks on the Internet.

"Lsjbot is responsible for the creation of articles about various species on the Cebuano, Swedish, and Waray-Waray Wikipedias," the Vice report said.

In its description page, the bot focused on creating articles about living organisms and geographical identities.

Speaking to Vice, Morandini said that bots have taken over the Cebuano's Wikipedia edition from human editors. Only five of the top 35 editors are humans.

"While this may not seem like an issue, when the majority of an edition’s content is written by a single bot it can negatively impact the quality of the edition," said the report.

Vice also noted that it is "rather peculiar" that Cebuano is second only to English among Wikipedia editions, considering that there are only around 16.5 million speakers of the language in the Philippines.

"Despite having over 5.37 million articles, it has only 6 administrators and 14 active users. The English edition, by comparison, has 1,143 administrators and 137,368 active users for over 6 million articles, at the time of writing," the report said.

A global administrator named Vermont views the Cebuano Wikipedia edition as a "pilot wiki" of sorts for the "idea of an article-creating bot."

"I’m of the opinion that bots could, at some point, do everything that a human can," he told Vice. —Angelica Y. Yang/MGP, GMA News