[Foundation-l] A dangerous precedent

[Aphaia]

A bit off topic,

On Jan 3, 2008 4:11 AM, Gianluigi Gamba <gigamb at tin.it> wrote:
> On it.wp we did not use the bots for creating the articles about the
> 8,000+ municipalities of Italy. Nevertheless, we created some
> templates and schemes to be applied for creating a consistent series
> of articles, that have been created "manually" by merging the data
> from the national statistical agency of Italy.
> Bots weren't yet running on it:wp in that time.

People who participated in this thread, specially who submitted their
opinions about bot-generation articles and its good and bad, may be
interested in an on-going vote on a bot-generated article related
proposal.

Meta:Proposal for Policy on overuse of bots in Wikipedias
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Proposal_for_Policy_on_overuse_of_bots_in_Wikipedias

Cheers,
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