"The Cunctator" wrote
I think a powerful fallacy in your line of reasoning
is the assumption
that the encyclopedia in its current state is anywhere near the point
of being comprehensive.
Oh, but I entirely agree. Adding bishopcruft at a great rate, myself.
We should be expending every effort to prevent
Wikipedia from being
less welcoming or harder for newbies. Signs that Wikipedia is becoming
less welcoming for newbies indicate the primary points of decay in the
system.
Well, I certainly agree on one aspect of this: somehow making it harder for new editors to
edit simply means they remain inexperienced newbies longer, which is no help at all.
Another thing: policy should be brought to a state where it belongs in the same sentence
as 'lucidity'. This is a known (political) problem.
I think you may misunderstand the sort of direction that would meet my approval. There is
a theoretical kind of place that would be 'upmarket of Wikipedia'. That is where
Citizendium wants to be. I think we have the smarts to be there ourselves. 'Floor the
accelerator' doesn't really acknowledge the possibility, because it is solely
about growth.
Charles
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