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Why doesn't this guy just package up the database, and autogenerate the page if the page is blank. That would have more utility than mixing human and bot generated articles.


Unless there's some nuance that I'm missing, it sounds like that that is exactly what he's doing.


I don't think that's what grizzles is saying, I think the idea was to patch the wiki software to generate these article stubs on the fly from the actual source instead of batch importing them once.

Sounds like a good idea to me, but I don't know the Wikipedia culture so they might have reasons against that.




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