FT2 wrote: Maybe. People should be _extremely_ cautious when using bots to try to propagate (new) wikis. Page-creation bots are a form of inorganic growth in a place (a wiki) that demands organic growth.[1] Wikis must, by and large, evolve over time naturally, otherwise the bots risk damaging the culture of the wiki or, in rare cases, it's possible for these bots to kill the wiki entirely.[2] This isn't to say that pulling in templates from other wikis can't be useful (of course it can be [though remember to attribute your source!]), but if mass page creation is done with a bot, it needs to be done with exceeding caution and accompanied by a full assessment of the impact of these page creations. The effects of these page creations is of course amplified on smaller, more vulnerable wikis, though the caution to avoid mass page creation largely applies equally to larger wikis as well. That is, 10,000 new and unused templates on a small Wikipedia that only has 400 articles is terrible, but it's not as though the English Wikipedia or any other established Wikipedia with millions of articles wants 10,000 unused templates either. MZMcBride [1] Wikis have been previously compared to children. "Creating a wiki is like creating a baby, yes you should have a good reason to create one, but if you don't for whatever reason, you should have an _extra_ good reason for killing one," bawolff once infamously said. In this case, the inorganic growth is analogous to cancer or anabolic steroid use. [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BOTOVERUSE#History has most of the history, though I could swear a project or two has been "restarted" due to bots over-running the site. Does anyone have a citation for that?

Wikidata will still help with the task at hand, but it should be formulated as: - Translate certain templates, like city templates etc., to the target language - Provide labels to relevant items on Wikidata in the target language Simplified this means the template ''City'' Country: {{#getfromwikidata:country}} would need to be translated in the target wiki to "Stadt" Land: {{#getfromwikidata:land}} and the actual country would need a label in the target language in Wikidata (i.e. "Österreich" for the item on Austria, etc.) and the city the template is used needs to be linked to the respective Wikidata item. This will help with starting Wikipedias quite a bit, but there is no magic involved. Cheers, Denny 2012/7/31 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>om>: -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote: To clarify this a bit in case it is unclear: Wikidata will not centralize the templates themselves but only the data in the templates. This data can then be localized. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.