On Dec 31, 2007 2:01 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The problem is not bot-generated articles. The problem
is that one
user on the Volapuk Wikipedia, by his own admission, deliberately
created tens of thousands of articles by bot purely to raise Volapuk's
listing on the front page of
www.wikipedia.org. He was not doing this
to write a useful Wikipedia in any way, but (again by his own
admission) to publicise the Volapuk constructed language.
He acted in bad faith; the question is then how to deal with this act
of bad faith and not allow it to be rewarded.
I think it was already raised on this thread - what is the demerit if
we deal with it like Klingon or Toki Pona? Or sep11 wiki? Are Wikia or
other websites willing to host it instead of Wikimedia? Through this
discussion I tend to fail the significance why Wikimedia Foundation
take care of this dying conlang, specially its purpose doesn't look
like giving knowledge itself but promoting the existence of the
language. I don't think it a good idea to delete it entirely - but
moving it to another place is a different matter and not elimination.
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