On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
This was, in fact, the original intended process for writing articles, no? With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow? That's the whole concept behind the wiki/open source thing that the project is based on. References were an afterthought, as indicated by our horrible kludgy support for them.
Absolutely - that *was* the whole idea. Unfortunately, that idea didn't lead to an encyclopedia people trusted, so now, in order to be credible, we have to reference everything. It's unfortunate, but unavoidable, I think.
I doubt it. Now we're an encyclopedia that's becoming increasingly difficult to edit and that nobody trusts.
-Phil