On 18/10/12 09:25, Steven Walling wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Nikola Smolenskismolensk@eunet.rs wrote:
The need for such bots should cease after Wikidata is fully deployed. I suggest to interested programmers that they should direct their effort there.
Why is that the case?
I didn't understand the scope of Wikidata to include actual creation of articles that don't exist. Only to provide data about topics across projects. Sure, that might be extremely helpful to someone with a bot to populate species articles, but I'm skeptical that Wikidata would or should be creating millions of articles about such things. If you consider something even slightly more controversial than species, such as schools, many projects would not welcome a third party mass-creating pages about a topic that is described in Wikidata.
Wikidata won't need to create articles. Rather, if you are trying to see a page without an article, Wikipedia will check if an item with appropriate name exists in Wikidata and generate the article on the fly if Wikipedia has a local article template for this type of article.