[WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

[David Gerard]

2009/8/1 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>:

> My current view is that [[wp:1.0]] is really the only taskforce that
> matters, and there is a huge amount of work to be done there. Clean up
> the process, improve the selection, review more articles, improve the
> articles that are going to be released.
> When deciding whether it's worth spending money on a part of a
> business, you have to know what the core business is, and whether the
> thing is core business, supports core business, or supports something
> that supports core business... Well, Wikipedia 1.0 is core business.
> Find stuff that supports that. Fixing a random unsourced fact on a
> random article is much less useful than fixing an unsourced fact on a
> TOP rated article which is going to be part of Wikipedia 1.0 (and in
> particular Wikipedia 0.7)...


Efforts like the Wikipedia Selection for Schools are important to help
too (and feed into 0.7 and 1.0). Remember, that's a real actual
encyclopedia DVD being used in actual schools and hugely popular with
teachers, based on all our hard work over the years.


- d.