On 02/10/2007, Berto 'd Sera <albertoserra(a)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.