[Wikimedia-l] Erik Zachte on bot-generated articles

[Jane Darnell]

I totally agree
(disclaimer: I don't have a bot, but I have been actively "flooding"
the engish wikipedia with artist stubs for years, and have used
municipality stubs created by bots to anchor their hometowns, working
places, and death towns)

2013/6/23, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> tl;dr he has his qualms, but a decent stub provides an excellent hook
> for new contributors.
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> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/17/swedish-wikipedia-1-million-articles/#comment-262399
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> - d.
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