Hello,
Lately, I am spending a lot of time on es:.
Sometimes, I spend some hours a week importing articles
(I would use that time better, if I have not do that).
The main problems about mass-importing are:
*A lot of void template
(example:
http://enciclopedia.us.es/wiki.phtml?title=Atolinga+%28Zacatecas%29)
*There are still many ''junk'' articles on EL
("hello", obsecenities, questions)
*Some different naming conventions
(EL do not make a lot of new subpages, but old ones remain)
Still, I am for a mass-importing tool (ie. a bot)
*A lot of good articles (it takes a lot of time to import them by hand)
*It could attract more user: more articles and higher position in Google
There is informal collaboration between the two projects, some
user spend time on both servers. I hope, that EL users will not get
ungry if I use a bot (I cannot predict their reaction)
There are no talks of rejoining since many months (at least six month,
I am afraid there will be no new talks before another six months).
My conclusion: I will be pleased that someone make a bot. I would
like to import say 50-100 articles a day (depending on my free time and
the availibility of other wikipedians from es)
Thanks in advance if some one could make a bot.
Regards,
Youssef