On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Walter van Kalken wrote:
The Poles are on their way to 100.000 as well by botway that create a
lot of stubs. So are the Italian and Portugese which to my surprise
are gaining on nl: very rapidly ... probably also by bot-stub-adding
... I wish them good luck and I hope that having more info in their
own languages available will attract more contributors :)
Italian will go in about a month from 60,000 to 100,000 mostly by bots
adding stubs about geographical places. There is already a project to
expands those stubs to reasonable quality, translating whatever info
is available in the town's native language wikipedia - and from other
languages, of course. In the meantime, the usual 4,000 new
articles/month rate has not changed much.
The popularity of bots, due to the rapid increase, has also promoted
the development of many bots dedicated to fix ortography and layout
issues, so existing pages are rapidly improving.
Alfio
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And, also, on it.wikipedia we are proposing for deletion a lot of
articles that we consider sub-stubs (one line or less); the nice thing
is that most of them are expanded, so the quality of it.wiki is
increasing. And a few other wikis have asked our databases for the
geographical places, so the project is not just ours
Cruccone