On 27/02/2008, Andrew Gray shimgray@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 :-)