On 12/10/2007, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
So I propose you first inform a couple of hundred
hardened speedy nominators,
prodders and AfD regulars that this is not yet official. Create articles, youse
bums!
I just wrote a long chewy email to an outside correspondent arguing
that a surprising amount of our problems are due to people not writing
enough articles. Not because we don't have enough - we have huge
amounts of them - but because so many of our most active and
ubiquitous users are massively and fundamentally disconnected from the
fundamental activity of the project.
Vandal-fighting and link-fixing and spam-weeding is all well and good,
but unless you set aside an hour every now and again to read
something, consider it, synthesise it, distill that down and write a
nice clear encyclopedic summary... well, you're going to end up
forgetting why we do what we do.
It might be a trivial topic. It might not be of much use to the
encyclopedia, all things considered. But it'll put your own work in
context, and *you'll* be much more use to the encyclopedia as a
result.
(This has been your dreary-Friday-afternoon manifesto. Go forth and annotate.)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk