[Wikipedia-l] RFC: Principles of mass content adding on small Wikipedias

[Andreas Vilén]

Before rushing into this stub maniac, please think! Is it really a
good idea to massadd substubs? Is the 'pedia of higher quality because
it has more substubs about 20000 obscure regions than without them? If
this is used, I believe it should aim towards making relevant articles
that can be easily expanded by people speaking the language. We've
seen what mass content adders have done to itwiki and plwiki, they
simply rush to get many articles and completely forget about
quality... Remember http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Substub_disease !

/Andreas

On 3/4/06, V. Ivanov <amikeco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, what should the people from a smaller Wikipedia do to become a
> testing place for the new project? I am ready to cooperate about the
> Ossetic (and probably also Chuvash and Udmurt) wikipedia. Really,
> thousands of new articles might be a not so good idea, but creating
> stubs about all countries and probably about the largest cities of the
> world sounds good.
>
> So, what is the algorythm?
>
> Slavik IVANOV
> os, ru, udm: User:Amikeco
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