I agree that bots can serve a good purpose.
However, the problem I see is that they can insert a lot of trivial information into the W. (For example, who needs the *exact* number of residents in any particular town?)
Well, should they round it? If so, why should they? Is there anything inherently wrong with knowing precice statistics as opposed to approximate ones? Will readers brains be overloaded with information?
I think bots can be used to do busywork (for this is why compter programs (and computers) were created in the first place)) but that they must mark their passage and make it easy to re-bot the info. For example, they might segregate the botted info like
<bot id="120"> some data in xhml or xml</bot>
That would be nice, but it would be kinda useless after Rambot. LDan
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