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

[David Cuenca]

Maybe better when the human generated content is greater than the one
originally added by the bot. Otherwise I can imagine someone adding one
comma to each article just to make it show up in the stats...

Cheers,
Micru

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Per A.J. Andersson <paja at telia.com> wrote:

> Sorry. Just a clarification. I hope you mean bot-generated articles are to
> be excluded in the tally only as long as they remain non-humanly edited. I
> see no point in indefinitely excluding some articles from a global tally,
> as all articles regardless of creation are bound to change content and
> style over time.
>
> Best of wishes,
> /Per
>
> 2013-06-23, 13:06, skrev Per A.J. Andersson:
>
>
>  2013-06-23, 12:33, skrev Ilario Valdelli:
>>
>>  I am not in the opposition of the use of the bots, if these bots will
>>> have
>>> their place and the articles generated by bots are considered like
>>> *populated templates* and not like articles.
>>>
>>> I think that a solution like this (the pages generated by bots are not
>>> included in the sum of articles), may be a really good compromise.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting idea. I'd be willing to accept an article counting first when
>> non-bots have been involved. However, it's up to the local community (and
>> those able to change the arcticle counting mechanism).
>>
>> Best of wishes,
>> /Per
>> Wikipedia user Paracel63
>>
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