On 11/15/05, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I submit that the vast majority of the truly awful pages on Wikipedia are very hard to find without the Random Page function, because they're very poorly linked into the site. There are many substandard articles on important topics, but much fewer that are utterly horrible.
My experence of following links around is that it is pretty easy to stumble upon rubish.
Frankly, if we did that, I quit. I'm sure I'm far from alone.
A less extream meausure would be limiting the creation of orphans. Allows new articles to be created but at the same time in theory ups the minium level of careing (someone cared enough about the article to think it should exist).
-- geni