On Wednesday 07 August 2002 10:09 am, LDC wrote:
I think it is important that all articles in Wikipedia
be
individually reviewed by a human editor. "Data dumping" is not
building an encyclopedia--quality is important, and out-of-date
material is not quality.
I strongly agree. A human should read, fix and add to these resources before
porting them to Wikipedia. We should always aim to create something unique
here.
What really is the point of directly porting outdated, pedantic, OCR error
filled material (such as from the 1911 text) into Wikipedia? The material is
already public domain, how is having it mirrored on a GNU FDLd content site
going to serve any greater good (that is; since it has not been changed the
original copyright, or lack thereof, applies)?
This stuff is nearly useless for the science articles and is oftentimes
problematic to use even in the history and mythology articles without
extensive tweaking.
With that said, it probably wouldn't hurt too much to simply take Pierre's
advice and submit one entry every 10 or 20 minutes with a "from an old
dictionary" flag in the edit summary field and at the bottom of the article.
This will give us humans plenty of time to fix the article if need be.
True it would probably take many months to finish but I think the result will
be far better.
--mav