[WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new

[Fayssal F.]

One major concern... The next generation would believe that Botpedia
started on 2001 and that Nupedia and Wikipedia lasted no more than a
few days. We have to make sure not to hide facts from them. Let's
document this in The Guinness Book of Records.

Fayssal F.

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 01:36:44 -0700 (PDT) bobolozo <bobolozo at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new
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> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#User:FritzpollBot_creating_millions_of_new_articles
>
> A bot has been approved to create articles on every
> place in the world which doesn't have an article yet,
> predicted to be about 2 million new stub articles.
>
> There is some question as to whether or not this is a
> good idea, as it would double our number of articles
> within a few months, perhaps mess up Special:Random,
> and most of the new articles would forever be tiny
> stubs.  There are suggestions that perhaps the bot
> could be limited to towns of a certain population
> size, or perhaps the tiny villages could be combined
> into lists instead of each having its own article.
>
> I'm not arguing for or against this, just bringing it
> up here.  If there are any concerns, speak now before
> the bot begins.