Daniel Arnold wrote:
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
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