Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot i Wall street jpournal and BBC world

Anders, On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Anders Wennersten &lt;mail(a)anderswennersten.se&gt; wrote: Whilst you are doing some good things with these bot-created articles, I do have some concerns. Mainly, the fact that there is no human intervention in the creation process. I have found myself having to remove, frankly speaking, useless galleries on some of the articles created by your bot. Take "Mexico" on Cebuano WP[1] which had a gallery made up of images from [[Category:Mexico]] (the country) on Commons. The Commonscat link on that article also links to the Commons category for the country. Or the Cebuano article for "Astraeus"[2] which had a gallery made up of images relating to Astraeus Airlines. The Commonscat link is also the airline, and the images were pulled from that article. What sort of quality control is occurring to ensure that this isn't widespread....these are not the only examples I've had to remove imagery totally unrelated to the subject, and makes me question whether having a bot creating hundreds of thousands of stubbish articles is really the best way to go about content creation. Russavia [1] https://ceb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mexico_(mga_mananap)&oldid=… [2] https://ceb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Astraeus&oldid=4367459 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>