[WikiEN-l] Biography stub dump, anyone?

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:

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

It's just a basic list so I don't think we even need to do that.

>> 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.

Letting a bot loose on this stuff could result in an awful lot of stubs 
for people to work on.  Taking whole pages and wikifying them, then 
removing the items from the list once they have been done might make 
more sense - or we could merge them with similar existing lists of 
people to be written about.

Ec