On 5/14/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/14/07, Jeff Raymond
<jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_the_future.html
> "... and explain why, sooner or
later, everyone in this room is going
> to end up in Wikipedia."
It's always disappointing to me when outsiders "get it" better than the
insiders do these days.
-Jeff
They're not getting it at all. If we lose editorial control and include
absolutely everyone, we won't be an encyclopedia any longer. There's nothing
stopping people from making a people wiki, but it doesn't have to be
Wikipedia. You actually need to have done something noteworthy to be listed
here, and there's plenty of people who don't even meet such a basic
definition.
Mgm
Might be an interesting project/experiment to do a
notability-not-required
en.wikibios.org project or somesuch, with our
other editing standards.
On the other hand, trying to track down vandals and libel through 300m
odd US entries seems daunting.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com