sysinfo was, I believe, autogenerated somehow and has a ridiculous quantity of links
nope. it was imported from sysinfo.dat but then it got updated in the wiki for a couple of years. no autogeneration at all inolved (from which source btw?)
and for the record most of its content (a page for each system supported by MESS ~2006 and some additional pages added more recently) were written by myself manually during my first winter in Norway
the good news is that, except for recent additions to mac infos, most of the content is still in current sysinfo.dat

it would be nice however to get rid of the content borrowed from wikipedia, for licensing reasons (I had most of those entries rewritten in the MESS wiki, but I fear some of the wikipedia content is still in the dat)