I agree with Daniel and Toby here. Wikipedia is not in a big rush and quality should go before quantity. It is great that there are such resources out there that we can copy from, but automatically pumping them into Wikipedia means that the natural responsibility that writers take for correctness, NPOV-ness, et cetera, is no longer there. Even if I would copy stuff from such resources I would still verify such things because I am putting it in Wikipedia under my name.
My opinion is that automatic uploading of such texts is a bad thing, but for slightly different reasons. My problem is that automatic uploading brings 'the good, the bad and the ugly'. Some EBD articles form a good basis for a Wikipedia article, others are of little use (I don't think we want the EBD entry on Egypt, nor do we want an article from a 1911 encyclopedia on Ljubljana, stating that it is a city in the Austria-Hungarian empire). Someone who wants to upload material from a source like the EBD should him/herself make the selection as to which entries are interesting for Wikipedia, not brush that responsibility onto the community after the fact or upload everything just because it is there.
Andre Engels