How much work would it take to write a tool that would create a stub article, given a species name, that would be usable by an ordinary user without special training?
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fæ Sent: 07 July 2015 04:09 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cebuano and Waray-waray Wikipedias among Top 10 From the perspective of a bot writer, and who proposed the automatic creation of a few thousand drafts for missing English Wikipedia articles for registered monuments in Wales (the proposal was resisted), I would rather see auto-creation tools limited to *suggesting* stub articles on user request. A tool which suggested to an editor a missing article and gave them a reliably referenced stub, has the benefits of using available data to boost article creation, attracting newer editors to try article creation, and ensures that a person always remain responsible for edits to the encyclopaedia and can be approached about improvement. P.S. Gerard, you have made over a third of all the posts in this thread during the day it has run, sometimes overlapping or repeating your earlier points, mostly about Wikidata. Perhaps you could take a moment to consider whether this helps to attract readers, and encourages non-regulars to participate, for slightly technical discussions like this? Thanks, Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.6037 / Virus Database: 4365/10179 - Release Date: 07/07/15 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
