Hello, Thanks for the link and the comments, Leila!
Am Fr., 14. Dez. 2018 um 00:44 Uhr schrieb Kerry Raymond < kerry.raymond@gmail.com>:
hostage to the interests of their contributors (unless they actively remove the material). That is, you get the topics that the contributors are willing and able to write, no matter what the intention might be.
That's a very pointy expression: "Hostage to the interests of their contributors"! In fact, WP should serve recipients, but the reality is often different. We alreday saw that Article Feedback Tool as a means to find out what recipients think. I would be happy with a new, less ambitious approach, where we don't expect recipients to contribute to the improvement of content but just want to know their opinion.
By the way, the distincion of large and short articles I have found in Collison's "Encyclopedias through the ages" (or similar) from 1966. It is not very prominent in there, but I have elaborated on the idea in 2015, with a distinction of definition articles, exposition articles, longer articles and dissertations.
An encyclopedia with "short" articles - or a meaningful combination of the four types above - would fit well to the original concept of hypertext not being an actual set of texts (or nodes), but being an individual's specific learning strategy or reading path.
Federico: remember, most of the oldest German texts (Old High German) deal with Biblical topics... :-)
Kind regards Ziko