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
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i was thinking more along the line of just asking them for a db dump and
then importing all the articles they have that we don't with out over
writting any content at all from the wiki. I guess abot would be the
best way to go, but it still needs to be approved. Well, not 'approved'
but discussion would be nice to the contributors at es.wiki can voice
their opinions complaints or concerns.
Lightning