[Wikipedia-l] 80,000

[Vicki Rosenzweig]

At 08:50 PM 10/26/02 -0700, Toby wrote:
>Gareth Owen wrote:
>
> >The Cunctator <cunctator at kband.com> wrote:
>
> >>How do they clutter the "worthwhile" entries? Wikipedia is not paper.
>
> >RandomPages
>
>An idea:
>Can Randompage weight the articles that it picks by their length?
>This will make *any* stub less likely to be chosen,
>arguably without giving a distorted picture of what Wikipedia is like.


That would be a good option, but shouldn't be the default--one of the
ways I use "random page" is to find things to improve and edit, and
stubs definitely qualify there.

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Vicki Rosenzweig
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