--- John <Flockmeal(a)cox.net> wrote:
There are certain things simply taken
as
facts that should be included in the Wikipedia. To wait for someone
to
enter all these things by hand would take forever. A bot can enter
the
data much more quickly and with a constantly consistent format for
easy
reading. Sure, someone should go back and look at all these bot
entrys
to add more information they might have from personal experience
but to
not let bots seed the 'pedia with factual stubs first would lessen
Wikipedia's content.
I agree that bots can serve a good purpose.
However, the problem I see is that they can insert a lot of trivial
information into the W. (For example, who needs the *exact* number of
residents in any particular town?)
I think bots can be used to do busywork (for this is why compter
programs (and computers) were created in the first place)) but that
they must mark their passage and make it easy to re-bot the info. For
example, they might segregate the botted info like <bot id="120">
some data in xhml or xml</bot>
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Christopher Mahan
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