On 02/26/04 21:27, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I have here a very old concise encyclopedia. It's printed with 3 columns of text. World War II takes up 2 full pages of fairly fine print. Francis Scott Key takes up about 1/3 of 1 column, i.e. about 1/9th of a page. The Wikipedia entry looks similar to the Francis Scott Key entry. Our World War II entry looks similar, too.
Consider, however, articles like [[John Kerry]] or [[Howard Dean]] (or similar issues of current history). They have incredible amounts of detail - of high quality - because they're updated almost live. But they wouldn't be so relevant for a concise print encyclopedia.
Suggested step: pick your editors to manage the 'print' branch and let them have their way. As in, the power to say "No."
- d.