Muke Tever wrote:
Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
It is sad that the craze of creating more entries on a Wiki has made a
wiki useless. I would support the removal of these 81.496 empty pages,
they are not helpful at all.
Useful for checking if a word exists (i.e. spell check).
*Muke!
But spell check presents suggestions for correcting your spelling. These
essentially content-less entries only inform you -- should you spell the
word right in the first place -- that the word exists in English. If you
happen to know another language well enough and are familiar enough with
Wiktionary, you could hop over to a more developed edition like English.
But if you search the Russian Wiktionary for "berd", you won't find
anything, whereas a spell checker might suggest "bred", "bard", and
"bird", among other things.
Many Wikipedia editions have used bots to generate large swaths of
content-less articles. You might want to take a look at the arguments
some of the bot owners present. [1][2] I'm still not convinced that
these editions have a large enough community to handle the influx of
what Vietnamese speakers would call "frames" (like the frames of an
half-built house, not quite ready for occupancy).
When the Vietnamese Wiktionary imported around 200,000 entries from a
free-content dictionary project, we at least had a lot of content to
work with. Laurent Bouvier was very helpful in making this work. But the
content contained many, many mistakes, both in formatting and content.
With a "community" of two regular contributors at any given moment, it's
been difficult to correct these errors on a significant scale.
The Vietnamese Wiktionary's errors don't impact its usefulness as much
IMHO, because formatting and spelling issues can be corrected
systematically and thoroughly by a bot. (I've got one in the works.)
You'd need some serious AI to *write* original definitions for tens of
thousands of words, and I'm not confident that a community of 500-some
can pull off such a huge feat without some outside help (a free-content
dictionary, for instance).
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_News#Year_stubs
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_News#Clarification_about_Nepa…
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