On Dec 31, 2007 2:01 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is not bot-generated articles. The problem is that one user on the Volapuk Wikipedia, by his own admission, deliberately created tens of thousands of articles by bot purely to raise Volapuk's listing on the front page of www.wikipedia.org. He was not doing this to write a useful Wikipedia in any way, but (again by his own admission) to publicise the Volapuk constructed language.
He acted in bad faith; the question is then how to deal with this act of bad faith and not allow it to be rewarded.
I think it was already raised on this thread - what is the demerit if we deal with it like Klingon or Toki Pona? Or sep11 wiki? Are Wikia or other websites willing to host it instead of Wikimedia? Through this discussion I tend to fail the significance why Wikimedia Foundation take care of this dying conlang, specially its purpose doesn't look like giving knowledge itself but promoting the existence of the language. I don't think it a good idea to delete it entirely - but moving it to another place is a different matter and not elimination.