[Wiktionary-l] RE : Re: ru.wikt and empty templates

[Matthieu Barba]

Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> a écrit : Tomasz Sienicki schreef:
> Apparently people at ru have filled their their Wiktionary with completely empty templates saying "This word or expression has not been translated yet. Please add your translation." 
>
> ru.wikt has 105 877 entries, out of which 81 496 are empty templates.
>
> This makes the Russian Wiktionary entirely useless; people complain they have stopped checking it, because they keep seeing empty entries.
>
> I suggest we stop adding interwiki links to ru:.
>
> --tsca
>   
Hoi,
It is sad that the craze of creating more entries on a Wiki has made a 
wiki useless. I would support the removal of these 81.496 empty pages, 
they are not helpful at all.

It is not possible to stop adding interwiki links to ru. The process is 
based on checking the existence of an expression that is spelled exactly 
the same on other Wiktionaries. There is no reason to believe that the 
expression that you are looking at on a Wiktionary means the same on the 
other Wiktionary anyway.

I run the interwiki bot as a service. I have not programmed it, I try to 
address issues when they arise by asking Andre Engels to have a look at 
the code to fix an issue.

Thanks,
    GerardM


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Hi,
I agree with GerardM : these entries are useless and should be deleted. Stopping interwiki links will not resolve the problem :-/
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