[Foundation-l] A dangerous precedent

Sat Jan 12 13:42:29 UTC 2008

Hoi,
I have been so bold as to publish an alternative proposal.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Providing_information_when_there_is_little_or_none
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Jan 10, 2008 5:14 PM, Elisabeth Anderl <spacebirdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am quite concerned, if such a proposal (I did not read it all due to the
> longuish and imho too emotional discussions) gets 2/3 support will there
> then come people, probably without even knowing that particular language,
> into the wikis with bot articles and delete them overruling the community?
>
> The link to this proposal is not published anywhere (only the meta-rc
> readers are aware of it), I have not seen it in any other ml or village
> pump.
> Imho this should be decided by communities only and the latter are just
> the
> ones who are not informed.
> Therefore I personally regard this proposal invalid.
>
> Best regards,
> Elisabeth Anderl
>
> Þann 2008/1/10, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> skrifaði:
> >
> > A bit off topic,
> >
> > On Jan 3, 2008 4:11 AM, Gianluigi Gamba <gigamb at tin.it> wrote:
> > > On it.wp we did not use the bots for creating the articles about the
> > > 8,000+ municipalities of Italy. Nevertheless, we created some
> > > templates and schemes to be applied for creating a consistent series
> > > of articles, that have been created "manually" by merging the data
> > > from the national statistical agency of Italy.
> > > Bots weren't yet running on it:wp in that time.
> >
> > People who participated in this thread, specially who submitted their
> > opinions about bot-generation articles and its good and bad, may be
> > interested in an on-going vote on a bot-generated article related
> > proposal.
> >
> > Meta:Proposal for Policy on overuse of bots in Wikipedias
> >
> >
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Proposal_for_Policy_on_overuse_of_bots_in_Wikipedias
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
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