David Gerard wrote:
On 03/24/04 21:30, Magnus Manske wrote:
At http://world.std.com/obi/Biographical/ there's a copyleft list of 15,000 biography stubs (one-liners). It goes like this: Abbot, Charles Greeley (C. G. Abbot) US astrophysicist; secy. of Smithsonian Institution 1928-1944 _1872-1973
So if we put the README as a permission note, with a link on each article, we should be fine.
It's just a basic list so I don't think we even need to do that.
- As automatically generated stub for each non-existing article
#1 would not require much work, #2 would need one of the wiki-bots.
Are there a lot we wouldn't want? If not, dumping all in would be good. I don't see why not.
Letting a bot loose on this stuff could result in an awful lot of stubs for people to work on. Taking whole pages and wikifying them, then removing the items from the list once they have been done might make more sense - or we could merge them with similar existing lists of people to be written about.
Ec