The use of wikidata instead of a bot is a good practice to provude good contant to all wikipedias because larger communities can control and fix errors instead of providing content by a bot and keep it outdated. Il giorno 17/giu/2013 15:53, "Gerard Meijssen" <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> Hoi, > > Please consider .... there are over 280 Wikipedias in as many languages. In > many languages we have few articles. Providing information is our mission. > We aim to provide well written articles. The argument is that we do not > succeed at that. Actually it is not an argument, it is a fact. When the > Germans feel they do not need bot generated articles, more power to them, > when they assume that their example is to be copied I truly wonder if they > understand the lack of resources in so many languages. > > It is fairly easy to find articles that are considered relevant to a > sizable group of the German populace that are missing.. I am working > towards providing this information by using Wikidata. The best part (for > the Germans) is that I urge them to make sure that these articles exist and > are well written .. in German. > Thanks, > GerardM > > PS I blogged about how this can be done several times in the past > > > On 17 June 2013 15:43, Dimce Grozdanoski <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On 17.06.2013 12:36, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > > > >> On 16/06/13 15:24, Johan Jönsson wrote: > >> > >>> 2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli <[email protected]> > >>> > >>>> 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. > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list > >> [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > >> > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l< > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
