[Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Do I misunderstand Wikipedia? On notability and encyclopedic merit.

[Tony Sidaway]

Gregory Maxwell said:
> On 5/18/05, Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
>> If size is a problem, have
>> you thought of filtering out a few categories that you don't like, or
>> those articles which are smaller than, say,  2kb?   I'm sure you'l
>> find a way to cram all the articles you're likely to want to read onto
>> a nice fat Zarus, if you only use a filter to decide which articles to
>> take with you..
>
> Right, but the one criteria that would be most useful is notability and
> I can't achieve that without reading every article and adding
> metadata.


I think you'd better get started now, and good luck.  But please don't try
to use something as malleable and personal as the size of your computer's
memory as a driver for the English Wikipedia's policy.