The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly by one bot

Re:The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly... by yorwba on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @03:11AM (#22411610)

The subtitle of the article makes it sound like the text in question is machine-translated, but it is created by filling a template with structured data. So long as the template is correct and the data source is accurate, the meaning won't be garbled.

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Re:The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly... by _-___________-_ on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @03:29AM (#22411666)

I can't really see how the number of translated articles could be as huge as it is using only that approach.

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Re:The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly... by yorwba on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:57AM (#22412778)

Why not? I tried a random article and got one about a park: https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atokad_Park Note that there's no English article about that park that could have served as the source for a machine translation. The article mostly lists a bunch of facts about the location that are easily available in public databases. I don't know how many entries GeoNames.org has, but this park has the number 5063315, so there should be material for quite a lot of articles.

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Re:The second largest version of Wikipedia is written mostly... by rcthompson on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @07:49AM (#22412713)

I guess it depends on how much information is in Wikidata, assuming that's the data source.

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