On 17.06.2013 12:36, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
On 16/06/13 15:24, Johan Jönsson wrote:
2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com
I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish
is due
to a work of bots and to a work of people.
It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which
would have
more people and more contributors.
The next millions of articles will be reached by Polish Wikipedia
but also
by cebuan Wikipedia and by Warai-Warai Wikipedia.
May be it's the time to have only bots to write in Wikipedia? I hope
that
in future the number of articles will be counted considering at least a
small content ad not only a template in a page, because the use like
this
will discourage the communities of editors.
I would say our experience is that it doesn't affect the number of human
editors at all in any way. A couple of people run bots that create very
short articles about taxons or other stuff that, to be honest, probably
wouldn't have been created otherwise. These articles have very few
readers.
Why on Earth would this discourage us?
Our main problem is that browsing Swedish Wikipedia using the random
article button isn't as fun as it used to be. That's probably fixable.
I am again using the opportunity to remind that all of this will soon
be completely unnecessary since it should be possible to generate the
articles on the fly from Wikidata data.
you mean to generate on the fly only articles of this kind, not any article.
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