On 10/9/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
If editors are supposed to take great writing
seriously, we must give it
the
highest possible award.
Jimmy Wales, here's something you could make happen.
I *demand* that we have a guaranteed daily place on the main page, to be
reserved solely for articles chosen for their great writing.
Anything less is a display of lack of commitment in our goal--to be as
good
as, or better than, any other encyclopaedia, free
or otherwise, with
digraphs or without.
This is totally to the community to 1) write very good articles and 2)
agree that they are very good and 3) put them on the main page.
How can Jimbo make that happen more than you ???
It isn't going to happen if he doesn't make it happen. The Featured Article
process is tortuous and review-based, and the quality of writing it produces
is at best mediocre.
If we really are going to take great writing seriously, we should try to
identify editors who are capable of doing it and encourage them to do so.
This means that an article may lack pictures, and even be a little short of
references. The footnotes may be uneven. But the article will be a pleasure
to read and provide good coverage of the topic.