[Foundation-l] A dangerous precedent

[Elisabeth Anderl]

Dear all,

I am quite concerned, if such a proposal (I did not read it all due to the
longuish and imho too emotional discussions) gets 2/3 support will there
then come people, probably without even knowing that particular language,
into the wikis with bot articles and delete them overruling the community?

The link to this proposal is not published anywhere (only the meta-rc
readers are aware of it), I have not seen it in any other ml or village
pump.
Imho this should be decided by communities only and the latter are just the
ones who are not informed.
Therefore I personally regard this proposal invalid.

Best regards,
Elisabeth Anderl

Þann 2008/1/10, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> skrifaði:
>
> A bit off topic,
>
> On Jan 3, 2008 4:11 AM, Gianluigi Gamba <gigamb at tin.it> wrote:
> > On it.wp we did not use the bots for creating the articles about the
> > 8,000+ municipalities of Italy. Nevertheless, we created some
> > templates and schemes to be applied for creating a consistent series
> > of articles, that have been created "manually" by merging the data
> > from the national statistical agency of Italy.
> > Bots weren't yet running on it:wp in that time.
>
> People who participated in this thread, specially who submitted their
> opinions about bot-generation articles and its good and bad, may be
> interested in an on-going vote on a bot-generated article related
> proposal.
>
> Meta:Proposal for Policy on overuse of bots in Wikipedias
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Proposal_for_Policy_on_overuse_of_bots_in_Wikipedias
>
> Cheers,
> --
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