[WikiEN-l] Totally unscientific investigation...

[Poor, Edmund W]

> Thanks for the feedback. One interesting point with my little 
> test seems to be that the average quality of our content has 
> not much improved since March (or since 2003, as far as I can 
> remember). 
> 
> A thought experiment: if we were the editorial committee of 
> an encyclopedia to be written from scratch and were given 
> Wikipedia's current content as a basis (but not the user 
> base), what would we do? I guess we would put our energy into 
> improving the material, i.e. rewriting/deleting/merging most 
> of it. But we would not try to acquire more articles of that 
> quality. (Ah wait, we ARE the editorial committee of an 
> encyclopedia to be written from
> scratch...)
> 
> Kosebamse

I'm on the editorial committee of just such a project: the Unification
movement's "[[Encyclopedia Project]]" (see the WP article).

And what are we doing? We are putting our energy into improving a small
subset of Wikipedia articles + commissioning an even smaller number of
brand-new articles. Gosh, I wish I could give a few selected Wikipedians
a tour of the "work in progress". Maybe I'll show a few pages at the
Boston Wikimania meeting next year, if I get some stage/screen time.

Ed Poor