Indeed, I found myself very curious about why the bot of "Swedish physicist Sverker Johansson" was writing articles in Cebuano (a language mainly spoken in the southern Philipines). It turns out that Cebuano is his wife's native language.
I'm curious about the actual quality of these articles. The OP says "the majority [of a random 1000] were surprisingly well constructed", but it's not clear what that even means. Does the author of the article know Cebuano (or Swedish or Waray-Waray, which are other languages this bot writes in) well enough to judge? Or does it just mean the articles looked like regular articles (ie they have all the infoboxes and other trappings of human-editor-driven articles)?
"Well constructed" sounds like a measure that a content farm would use. The measure for an encyclopedia should be "accurate", and based on the number of times I've seen machine translation completely garble meaning (while maintaining correct structure), I doubt these articles would score highly on that measure.
I'm curious about the actual quality of these articles. The OP says "the majority [of a random 1000] were surprisingly well constructed", but it's not clear what that even means. Does the author of the article know Cebuano (or Swedish or Waray-Waray, which are other languages this bot writes in) well enough to judge? Or does it just mean the articles looked like regular articles (ie they have all the infoboxes and other trappings of human-editor-driven articles)?