[Foundation-l] A dangerous precedent

Sat Jan 12 18:26:31 UTC 2008

I have to say, Gerard, that's a pretty good summary of the situation.

-Dan
On Jan 12, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> 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,
>>> --
>>> KIZU Naoko
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