Am Samstag, 29. Dezember 2007 09:40:46 schrieb Nikola
Smolenski:
With it, it is possible to effectively have
articles about various topics
similar to bot-generated articles without them actually being in the
database. It is possible to kickstart a small Wikipedia by translating a
handful of templates. And, it is possible to further expand the articles,
as it is with bot generated articles.
I like people "just do things" but please do not
"kickstart" small Wikipedias
with template translation. It is that: A painfull kick in the ... of the
people.
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
projects that don't have the patience to grow sustainable.
If further small Wikipedias are starting to cheat like vo.wp I can guarantee
you that there will be a split of Wikipedias.
I would disagree with rejecting all
bot generated articles, within
pre-defined circumstances they can be very useful. There were a lot of
complaints when RamBot was putting up his small town articles, but they
all managed to survive because there is a big enough community to review
the material.
With a small community, a single tech savvy person using a bot can too
easily overwhelm the operational capacity of that community
Ec