There are many articles whose apperance are bot generated but actually
written with human hands.
I think I sometimes to have translated those articles - mainly on
geographic locations - so even if the original were bot-generated, my
translations ought not to be called so.
As for those articles ... in the beginning I was very skeptical. But
as Nikola said people sometimes seek desperately for information which
is rarely available. It is unlikely happening on major topics but
rather minor topics. For example very small US towns or so.
Japanese Wikipedia provides articles on every - literally every -
train stations. They even have some bus stop articles ('''XXX Bus
Stop''' is a bus stop on XX High Way. yadda yadda). And they look like
bot-generated. Personally I haven't seen them useful but - for
fairness I have heard compliments about those articles exactly. A
friend of mine said to me "Wikipedia is really useful. It tells me
which station has how many platforms and how they each are connected.
I check it whenever I need to make a business trip. It's nice to know
where and how I should make a transit."
Bot generated contents per se are not evil. The recent problem is, as
Ec said, if it overwhelms the existing community primarily and if such
a project make any bad impact to the project as a whole, not this
particular project but Wikimedia project as a whole.
On Dec 30, 2007 6:48 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote:
On Saturday 29 December 2007 11:51, Daniel Arnold
wrote:
I simply don't want to sit in the same boat
with people that think a bot
generated article is useful. I don't want to sit in the same boat with
How about people who know that a bot generated article is useful?
One of Serbian Wikipedians works in Telecom Serbia (
http://www.telekom.yu ).
Occasionally, they have to work with a phone central in some unknown village.
So, they search for the placename on Wikipedia so that they could see where
that place is exactly and other basic info.
Yes, they could find the same information by querying the database on the
website of the Institute of Statistics of Serbia, but using Wikipedia is more
convenient for them.
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