You should have warned people to get a *big* bag of popcorn before looking at that anguished discussion. Every single vote to close the wiki is either questioned, the poster told their criticism equally applies to some other language like Esperanto, or that fact that a few percent of another Wiki's articles being bot generated is used to try and dismiss the vote.
It must be pretty bad when people are suggesting vo:* be added to the spam blacklist on other projects. Consensus? Meet Window... We're on the 27th floor.
Brian McNeil
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: 30 December 2007 23:26 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A dangerous precedent
On 30/12/2007, Andrew Whitworth wknight8111@gmail.com wrote:
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?
That is precisely what he said he was doing.
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.
Except that he said that was what he was doing. I'm not going to "assume good faith" in the face of a direct statement from the person about what they're doing.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Vol ap%C3%BCk_Wikipedia
- d.
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