Your comments are fascinating, and I think they bring
into relief a very different vision of what wp should
be from mine. That is why I ask the question about
schools, to try to see what we can agree on in terms
of what the content of our 'ideal' wp would be.
I think the Rambot articles are a great start, and a
place to build from, yes, the tabular data is not
enough, but it is a springboard.
The same with schools - perhaps we need a schoolbot to
make all the schools with tabular data, then fill in
the rest by hand?
Mark
--- "Daniel P.B.Smith" <dpbsmith(a)verizon.net> wrote:
Subject: Re:
[WikiEN-l] Compendium
So, to try to avoid the constant posturing for a
while, how does this help us to navigate the
different
understandings of what should and should not go
in?
Are you in favour or against schools, for
example?
I
can't really tell from your message.
1) That wasn't the purpose of the message. Someone
had used the phrase
"compendium of human knowledge" as if it meant
"everything." I was
pointing out that the word "compedium" implies
_selection._ And I was
pointing out that, while acknowledging Wikipedia is
_different_ from
other encyclopedias, the word _encyclopedia_ does
imply an emphasis on
certain kinds of "knowledge" over others.
2) If you frame the question in the form "are you in
favor of or
against schools" you would not be able to understand
any answer I could
give. Watch my behavior in VfD and make your own
deductions.
It would seem that your definition would exclude
many
RamBot articles?
I'm a pragmatist. I don't think the Rambot articles
on towns were a
good idea, but I accept them as a fait accompli. No,
I do not think
they fall within even a loose definition of an
encyclopedia. They are
database tabular data that's been gussied up into
pseudo-English.
They're here. I'm not going to use any of my own
psychic energy on a
crusade to get rid of them. If someone else tries to
get rid of them, I
won't waste any of my own psychic energy trying to
stop them. I believe
these feelings of mine are fairly widely shared, by
the way.
The thing I hate most about the Rambot articles is
people citing them
as precedent for putting in other stuff that
shouldn't go into
Wikipedia.
--
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