[WikiEN-l] CZ fork: Tendrl

[SlimVirgin]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 13:43, wiki <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> FA tends to concentrate on specialist articles - because it is the only
> place a FA writer or two can be left alone to work on it without a hoard on
> POV pushers and school kids.
>
> It is a pity we can't find ways of getting people to work on bringing core
> articles (by which I mean subjects that would be in a 3,000 article max set
> of paper encyclopaedias) up to scratch.

To get people to work on improving these to FA standard, you would
need to protect them against editing by others, and no one would buy
that. That's why most FA articles are on topics where fewer people
want to contribute. The process of getting an article to FA standard
usually depends on one person, or perhaps a small group of like-minded
people.

Sarah