None of this is "cheating" because the method is not what's important. The real important part is the collection and distribution of free information. Stomping around and threatening some kind of fork or whatever because you don't like the methods of another community to achieve our goals is counterproductive.
Indeed. The problem with the Volapuk Wikipedia as it stands is that this was *not* done to achieve our goals, but as a sort of spam. What was the reason for tolerating this again?
I guess I'm not understanding the difference you are using here. The bot is translating text from one wikipedia for use in another wikipedia, so are you saying that wikipedia content itself is "spam"? Or are you asserting (as I assume you are) that this user was trying to artificially increase the vo.wikipedia article count to try and lend undue credence to the Volapuk language?
A simple assumption of good faith here should prevent us from assuming that any of these actions are nefarious, especially if they are producing acceptable articles. Assuming good faith would also breed tolerance, because we would assume that the articles were being created in furtherance of our goals, not as some sort of underhanded marketing scheme for a dead conlang.
--Andrew Whitworth