Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-09-25/News and notes

Has Telugu Wikipedia really almost tripled in size (c.5,000 to over 15,000 articles) in less than four weeks? Who is doing the work there? -- ALoan (Talk) 15:00, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See m:Talk:Wikimedia News#Year stubs for some explanation. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 22:08, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, they only created a few hundred year stubs. My guess is that they created thousands of stubs on Indian localities. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 22:10, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The equivalent of the RamBot "explosion" in the early days of the English Wikipedia. Thryduulf 22:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps they should scrape articles from :en:, run then through machine translation, and dump them in their wikipedia? Lots of clean-up required, of course, but better than nothing? -- ALoan (Talk) 09:24, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]