[WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 00:50:07 UTC 2008


2008/6/1 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2008/6/1 Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca>:
>
>> The only remaining problem I have with Rambot's articles is the formatting,
>> which is archaic now and would require a rather clever bot to update without
>> damaging edits that have been made to the original base.
>
>
> It took data and rendered it in prose form. These days we'd just put
> the data in as template parameters.

The places rambot was covering for the most part actually exist. We've
had issues with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in the
past. Remember this mess:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Gnaa%2C_Nigeria_%283rd_nomination%29


-- 
geni



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