This. Even a pretty poor model (and it probably will be) would be a huge boon to editors in an encyclopedia full of references which are missing, out of date,

This. Even a pretty poor model (and it probably will be) would be a huge boon to editors in an encyclopedia full of references which are missing, out of date, a bit stretchy or plain bad faith. Wikipedia already has bots on it doing grunt work, and plenty of editors that like doing grunt work of checking minor details more than writing new content.