I'm skeptical that mass creation of species articles is a good idea, at least until we have good integration with Wikidata. Such a bot would work with database data, and database data belongs in a database. Who is going to maintain millions of articles in a small Wikipedia when taxonomic changes happen, errors in the underlying database are corrected, or new information becomes available? On the English Wikipedia, we have enough of a problem maintaining the articles Polbot generated; the problems will be far worse on a smaller wiki that has fewer people qualified to work on biological articles.
Wikipedias are better at providing textual, complex information that does not fit well in a database. For database data, we should provide a bridge to a database (e.g., Wikidata), not replicate database content in an unmaintainable form.
2013/1/12 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com
Andrew Leung, 13/01/2013 01:55:
Perhaps we should have a brainstorm session on how and where to recruit
these volunteer programmers?
If Anders is right, the code was made so that what you really have to modify in order to run it is only the (probably small) linguistic content. You could ask the bot owner some directions on what exactly needs to be customised; when there's consensus and the community has "translated" what needs translating, it's not hard to find someone to merely run a bot.
Nemo
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