Having some basic information already present means that potential editors won't have to start from an empty page, making it easier to see where content can be added.
Of course if what you're interested in is actually how much humans contribute to Wikipedia in a given language, you'll need to ignore bot activity, but that doesn't make it useless.
Having some basic information already present means that potential editors won't have to start from an empty page, making it easier to see where content can be added.
Of course if what you're interested in is actually how much humans contribute to Wikipedia in a given language, you'll need to ignore bot activity, but that doesn't make it useless.