On 8/21/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
My support for the whole endeavour, for one. The appearance of professionalism, for another. This thing looks like it was just a knee-jerk reaction to bad publicity.
There's no doubt, it *was* a knee-jerk reaction to bad publicity, but not a bad one. Calling it an experiment was a mistake, since everyone now expects introduction, method, results, analysis, conclusion, in that order. However, we haven't had any more Seigenthalers, and there's certainly no sign that anything has become dramatically worse. Maybe Wikipedia could have been "even better" than it is now, for the same time period? We could have been up to 1.6 million articles? Who knows.
Steve