Re: User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new

2008/6/1 Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksenshaw.ca>:

> The only remaining problem I have with Rambot's
articles is the formatting,
> which is archaic now and would require a rather clever
bot to update without
> damaging edits that have been made to the original
base.


It took data and rendered it in prose form. These days we'd
just put
the data in as template parameters.


> But I'm sure
> FritzpollBot will be using modern style guidelines for
templates and
> citations when generating articles so that should be
fine.


The considerable human review and involvement of country
WikiProjects
will help a great deal (and I suggest makes a nonsense of
Nathan's
assertion that these articles will be "untouched for a
decade").


- d.

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