On 27/02/2008, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We do just the same thing - strip-mine existing data
sources in order
to kickstart articles, and it certainly hasn't stopped us writing
other material... heck, for the past few months a bot has been
dripping out hundreds of stub articles on species based on parsing the
IUCN Red List database, and they're really not.
"...really not that bad, decent frameworks for building on", is the
way I meant to finish that sentence!
My memory is a bit flawed - this was Polbot, and it's not currently
running. But the point sort of stands as of six months back :-)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk