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

[Peter Southwood]

These criteria do not address the quality of the article.
How about a "not counted as an article" category for stub articles of all 
kinds, whether generated by bot or human, to be removed when the article 
reaches a reasonable standard of usefulness?
Cheers,
Peter
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From: "David Cuenca" <dacuetu at gmail.com>
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> 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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