On 29/08/2007, SPUI <drspui(a)gmail.com> wrote:
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com wrote:
I find that simply working on WP is the education
one needs to realise what is missing.
"Good stubs" are still, well, good. They tend not to require special skills to
write.
One example I've seen mentioned several times is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge . Because
people made stubs for every crossing of the Mississippi River in and
below the Twin Cities, we had an article -
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge&am…
- before the bridge collapsed.
Which has to have helped the speedy expansion of the article after the
collapse. And since Wikipedia is quite possibly at its best with
current events (this year alone, at least two articles I can think of
have received praise in mainstream media for reporting a highly useful
synthesis of the facts as they were developing), that has to be a good
thing.