One major concern... The next generation would believe that Botpedia
started on 2001 and that Nupedia and Wikipedia lasted no more than a
few days. We have to make sure not to hide facts from them. Let's
document this in The Guinness Book of Records.
Fayssal F.
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 01:36:44 -0700 (PDT) bobolozo <bobolozo(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating
millions of new
articles
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See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#User:Fr…
A bot has been approved to create articles on every
place in the world which doesn't have an article yet,
predicted to be about 2 million new stub articles.
There is some question as to whether or not this is a
good idea, as it would double our number of articles
within a few months, perhaps mess up Special:Random,
and most of the new articles would forever be tiny
stubs. There are suggestions that perhaps the bot
could be limited to towns of a certain population
size, or perhaps the tiny villages could be combined
into lists instead of each having its own article.
I'm not arguing for or against this, just bringing it
up here. If there are any concerns, speak now before
the bot begins.