Nemo has found this wiki which I find very interesting [1]. it contains
1,68 million articles and seems to be a copy of articles from Lithunian
Wikipedia + some 1,5 million botgenerated articles, with focus on
species (i know from Lsjbot that there are at least some 1,3 M articles
of species to be found from reliable databases)
The effort seems to be done by just a few lithuanians wikipedians with
the right technical skill and insight on wikipedia, they are probably
active also on ltwp[2].
For me it is a reminder what will happen if we continue to be sceptical
of botgerneration of articles with correct info with verfied sources.
Creative people will do it anyway and then outside Wikpedia, which could
make Wikipedia redundant in the same way Wikipedia has made the old
paperbased encyclopedias redundant. The online encyclopedia with most
knowledge to the readers will survive, and botgenerated verified
articles contains more knowledge then no article on the subject. Also
note that the most active now are languages like Vietnamese and
Lithunian, with small communities all aware it will take eons of time if
to expected these will be created manually
I do would like the movement and upcoming strategy to make a proactive
stand re semiautomted articles
On sv:wp we have had this focus, since last august with including upload
on wikidata as part of the articlegeneration. We have found the
inclusion of Wikidata much more complex then we anticipated. We thought
half a year would be enough to "get a set of items with proper 100%
quality data into Wikidata", but we now think it will take something
like two years for just a small set of 10000 articles :( This have not
changed our belief in this approach, but we would certainly appreciate
it there were other entities doing the same and with whom we could
exchange experience (or a central initiative)
Anders
[1]
Start page
http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Pagrindinis_puslapis
Latest changes
http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Specialus:Naujausi_puslapiai
For random article press Atsitiktinis puslapis
<http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Specialus:Atsitiktinis_puslapis/Straipsnis>
[2]
ltwp
https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagrindinis_puslapis