[WikiEN-l] Biography stub dump, anyone?

[David Gerard]

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


Looks good.

"Legal issues and disclaimers.
    All these files are copylefted.  If you have any use for them, please use
them.  You are also free to make copies of them for yourself and make copies
to be distributed free of charge to other people, provided that you include
a copy of this README file and share copies of these files for free with
anyone who asks you for them.
    The information in these files is not guaranteed to be accurate.  No
guarantee whatsoever is made as to the accuracy or usefulness of these
files, and you use them entirely at your own risk.  You can't sue me."

So if we put the README as a permission note, with a link on each article,
we should be fine.


> 2. 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.


- d.