[WikiEN-l] Citizendium on quality

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 07:37:02PM -0500, Wily D wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2007 6:44 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/19/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > http://blog.citizendium.org/2007/12/18/why-the-focus-on-creating-quality-content-in-case-you-didnt-know/
> > >
> > > Interesting thoughts on quality.
> >
> > For me the telling line in that blog post is:
> >
> > "Even if we don't get it right, someone eventually will, because it is
> > possible and because there is such a huge potential demand for it.  I
> > look forward to that day!"
> >
> > That is pretty much what citizendium is relying on. That there is a
> > "huge potential
> > demand" for perfection instead of "just good enough". I don't see that
> > this is a gimme, but it could be true. I cast my lot with "just good
> > enough", so will have
> > to forego perfection.
> >
> > --
> > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
> >
> >
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> There is a huge demand for high quality, but people prefer "existing
> good enough" to "hypothetical high quality" ...

Which is why I think we should spport http://en.veropedia.com/ so people
can see where the high quality is not hypothetical, and not have to
prefer "good enough".

Brian.
 
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