A Swedish physicist with multiple university degrees could be the most prolific writer in the world after allegedly authoring 8.5 percent of the content on Wikipedia.

Sveker Johansson, who holds degrees in economics, particle physics, linguistics and civil engineering, has written more than 2.7 million of Wikipedia's approximately 30 million articles since 2001.

The 53-year-old pens 10,000 articles a day on average but he does have some help.

Mr Johansson is part of a new generation of "authors" who use computer-generated algorithms, known as bots, to churn out a steady stream of content.

The brainy Swede has named his own, the Lsjbot.

The bot works by scanning the internet for information on certain subjects and then automatically generates a Wikipedia article or "stub" using the information it has found.

A large volume of Mr Johansson's work focuses on obscure species of birds, butterflies and beetles.

He has created a stub for every species of bird known to man as well as every form of fungus.

While bots can search for anything the 53-year-old prefers to steer clear of the subjective.

"I am strictly exclusionist with the domains where the risk of a point of view is palpable," he said.

"For example, contemporary companies, politicians, musicians etc."