This is the first in a series of occasional updates on the development of the SABR Encyclopedia wiki.

It's been about six weeks since the Board approved the concept of the Encyclopedia and authorized us to begin work. After a month of planning, on April 1, the first automated "bot" went into action, creating a page for each person listed in the Minor Leagues Database, which is the single largest dataset anywhere of people involved with professional baseball. About five days later, the upload process was completed, and a few intrepid souls, Jack Morris, Cliff Blau, Joel Dinda, and John Zajc among them, have begun the task of organizing and expanding biographical knowledge about this set of people. In the meanwhile, pages have automatically been built out for (most) professional leagues and teams. Pages for each ballpark to host at least one Major League game have also been created.