I agree. It may be a good solution to "patch" the losing of editors... if there is no plan for community support.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Russavia <russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anders, > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Anders Wennersten > <m...@anderswennersten.se> wrote: > > Whilst you are doing some good things with these bot-created articles, > I do have some concerns. > > Mainly, the fact that there is no human intervention in the creation > process. > > I have found myself having to remove, frankly speaking, useless > galleries on some of the articles created by your bot. > > Take "Mexico" on Cebuano WP[1] which had a gallery made up of images > from [[Category:Mexico]] (the country) on Commons. The Commonscat link > on that article also links to the Commons category for the country. Or > the Cebuano article for "Astraeus"[2] which had a gallery made up of > images relating to Astraeus Airlines. The Commonscat link is also the > airline, and the images were pulled from that article. > > What sort of quality control is occurring to ensure that this isn't > widespread....these are not the only examples I've had to remove > imagery totally unrelated to the subject, and makes me question > whether having a bot creating hundreds of thousands of stubbish > articles is really the best way to go about content creation. > > Russavia > > [1] > https://ceb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mexico_(mga_mananap)&oldid=42452802 > [2] https://ceb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Astraeus&oldid=4367459 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario> Facebook: Ilario Valdelli <https://www.facebook.com/ivaldelli> Twitter: Ilario Valdelli <https://twitter.com/ilariovaldelli> Linkedin: Ilario Valdelli <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6724469> Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
