Hi!
Nice to know German language Wikipedia is full of sane people.
Good for you.
But maybe you don't need bots, so that's your decision. (You do
not need infoboxes either, as I see it, and that's also your
decision. Lsjbot makes infoboxes, among other things.)
Yes, a larger database is more of a burden to support than a
smaller one. Our experience at svwp is that automated help does
not take away from the human part of the user community.
Personally I think a larger database of comparable quality
(built by any method) makes for a larger footprint = a greater
chance of catching new editors. Wikipedia did that for me.
My view on it is that larger communities can sustain and
maintain a certain database easier than smaller communities.
Wikipedia communities to a large extent depend on the language
size surrounding it. We already have automation around us at
several levels, and there are editing tools that make for faster
editing – by humans. The use of these are seldom questioned.
Best of wishes,
/Per A.J. Andersson
user Paracel63 at svwp
(carbon-based lifeform from Sweden)
2013-06-17, 12:09, skrev Hubertl:
Payin´ peanuts, gettin´ monkeys
Servin´ facts, gettin´ idiots.
An unmanageable, not maintainable mass of articles is the best
way to breed idiots. Because facts do not create knowledge.
If that is our goal, then automatically created Wikipedias ar
the best way to solve one of our biggest problems, namely the
permanent loss of authors.
Maybe it is completely sufficient if you know that somewhere
facts are stored in a most possible stupid form.
I started more than fifty years ago learning about facts, facts
without understanding. But nine years ago I startet to learn
something about knowledge, understanding and correlations.
Why do not you need people like me? If we have bots now?
Do we want to make ourselves more important with impressive numbers?
Hubertl!
The german language Wikipedia has no single article that was
generated by a bot. I'm proud of it. If this would take place
in de:WP, many people will leave this project. With certainty.
Anyway, that does not matter, a bot is probably much better for monkeys!