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

[David Gerard]

2008/6/1 Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca>:

> The only remaining problem I have with Rambot's articles is the formatting,
> which is archaic now and would require a rather clever bot to update without
> damaging edits that have been made to the original base.


It took data and rendered it in prose form. These days we'd just put
the data in as template parameters.


> But I'm sure
> FritzpollBot will be using modern style guidelines for templates and
> citations when generating articles so that should be fine.


The considerable human review and involvement of country WikiProjects
will help a great deal (and I suggest makes a nonsense of Nathan's
assertion that these articles will be "untouched for a decade").


- d.