It outranks German and French. Almost all of it is bot-generated.

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[–] 37 points 8 months ago

“Cebuano is the second most spoken language in the Philippines with about 20 million speakers”

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    The suspense is killing me, which language is number one?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    never knew wikipedia accepts bot generated text... what's the point of doing that?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    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.

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