Anthony wrote:
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
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. But I'm sure FritzpollBot will be using modern style guidelines for templates and citations when generating articles so that should be fine.
Modern for 2008, sure. Archaic in 2010? Probably.
Wikipedia's technologies and style guides are much more future-proof now. We use templates more extensively, allowing the formatting of chunks of the article to be changed site-wide in an easy manner, and things like ref tags will make it easier for future bots to parse the articles when attempting to update things.