On 06/11/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 6, 2007 11:48 AM, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
The goal is not a 100% perfect encyclopedia. The goal is aCOMMUNITY building an encyclopedia. BUILDING, not BUILT. It will never be "built". It will and should always be "in process", "under construction", IMPERFECT!
The direct form of process over product, that the purpose is community and not a useful encyclopedia, has been explicitly rejected by the English Wikipedia community last I checked. It's certainly a disputed position.
I think it's worth realising that we're a work in progress. I really like [[WP:WIP]]. I'd try to make it shorter if I'd written it, but I did add the list of red link lists at the end.
We are WAY less finished than you might expect from a top-10 reference site.
- d.