[Foundation-l] Another look a bot creation of articles

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
You may want to consider the scale of things ... when you are talking
chemicals, proteins a number like 240 million articles can be expected. With
such numbers you have to wonder to what extend Wikipedia can cope.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Ting Chen <Wing.Philopp at gmx.de> wrote:

> > Perhaps you and I are the only ones on this list who are interested, but
> > since I'm enjoying the discussion...
>
> I have followed this discussion from the beginning. My opinion to the bot
> created article is if the articles thus created have content, then we should
> welcome it. I don't see the necessaty for a human being to put on all the
> informations if a mashine can do it either. If the informations are there,
> people can use it for free, if they got later edited or not is not that
> interesting. Our goal is not to have people editing articles, but to provide
> free information.
>
> Ting.
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