On 02/10/2007, Berto 'd Sera albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
Well, I'm not against bots in principle. But I do think there's a limit, over which a botpedia fails to be a real project. IMHO, it's better to have a small and slow community, but still a community, than making a lot of quick articles without actually having a structure to support it.
It depends if it's part of a project. When I joined en:wp in late 2003, 1/6 of all articles were still Rambot-generated US place articles, most unedited except by the robot. It was very annoying. However, we could claim *complete* coverage of *every place in the US*. And if a bot could assist en:wp with covering other countries to that level of detail, that would be a good thing as well, for the same reason.
- d.