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Subject:    Re: [Wikipedia-l] Project: This wikipedia-related article is a stub...
From:       Marco Chiesa <chiesa.marco () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-09-06 18:21:47
Message-ID: 431DDE3B.2070408 () gmail ! com
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Alfio Puglisi wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Walter van Kalken wrote:
>
>>>
>> The Poles are on their way to 100.000 as well by botway that create a 
>> lot of stubs. So are the Italian and Portugese which to my surprise 
>> are gaining on nl: very rapidly ... probably also by bot-stub-adding 
>> ... I wish them good luck and I hope that having more info in their 
>> own languages available will attract more contributors :)
>
>
> Italian will go in about a month from 60,000 to 100,000 mostly by bots 
> adding stubs about geographical places. There is already a project to 
> expands those stubs to reasonable quality, translating whatever info 
> is available in the town's native language wikipedia - and from other 
> languages, of course. In the meantime, the usual 4,000 new 
> articles/month rate has not changed much.
>
> The popularity of bots, due to the rapid increase, has also promoted 
> the development of many bots dedicated to fix ortography and layout 
> issues, so existing pages are rapidly improving.
>
> Alfio
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And, also, on it.wikipedia we are proposing for deletion a lot of 
articles that we consider sub-stubs (one line or less); the nice thing 
is that most of them are expanded, so the quality of  it.wiki is 
increasing. And a few other wikis have asked our databases for the 
geographical places, so the project is not just ours

Cruccone
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