[Wikipedia-l] Easton's Bible Dictionary

Pierre Abbat phma at webjockey.net
Wed Aug 7 16:00:44 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 07 August 2002 11:10, Neil Harris wrote:
> That was me, pouring in entries from Easton's Bible Dictionary.
>
> I've Wikified it, and filtered out short articles and those without
> commas or the string "he" in.
>
> There's also no chance of killing existing articles: the script checks
> in advance, and refuses to over-write existing articles.
>
> Is your objection
> a) the bias in many of the articles (in which case I can add a
> disclaimer, saying "This is from an old Bible Dictionary, and it has the
> biases of its author and period -- please use this material as a basis
> for a new article")
> b) the rate of the scripted additions
> c) auto-addition of any material, even when filtered for stubs and
> nonsense?

The rate of addition. Try setting it to one every 20 minutes. We should be 
able to handle that.

phma



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