It outranks German and French. Almost all of it is bot-generated.
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- xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
“Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines with about 20 million speakers”
- jjpamsterdam@feddit.orgEnglish3 months
From what I read it’s mostly bot created nonsense stub articles. I’d rather have a smaller wiki with higher quality than a pond that’s miles wide but only inches deep.
3 monthsThey aren’t nonsense articles. Those bots create articles about any known species. They usually only include the name, taxonomy, who described it first, and sometimes a description.
- hexagonwin@lemmy.todayEnglish3 months
never knew wikipedia accepts bot generated text… what’s the point of doing that?
I don’t think it’s a matter of “accepting” but rather it being mostly community maintained, and so languages with minimal communities get no moderation.
To clarify, Lsjbot is/was a deterministic bot that would create stub articles about subjects functionally guaranteed to be notable (by whatever ceb.wiki’s standards are, which I think mirror ours on en.wiki). It would add basic information in a template format.
E.g. “Pissus shitticus is an X in the family Y. It was described in 1234 by Some Fucking Guy.”
The upside to this is that one of the hardest parts of making a good article is just having the article in the first place. Labor-wise it’s not difficult, but it’s a psychological thing.
The downside is that, unlike on en.wiki which already has its hands full with a couple million bot-created articles, ceb.wiki could not possibly ever hope to substantially complete 99% of these. So they’ll be stuck as shitty stubs that are little more than a verbose database entry for eternity.
