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