On 13/07/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Aha. Here follows the crux. "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" "Wikipedia is a project to write an encyclopedia" We started off the latter; at some point, people started assuming the former. If you stick to the latter, then half-written drafts and pages with "needs cleanup" or "check this Tuesday" become a lot more understandable. We're a work in progress that lets people read the current draft, not a constantly updating work.
Yep. See also: [[WP:WIP]].
I try to stress this in media contacts. If you remember it's a LIVE WORKING DRAFT and it's JUST WRITTEN BY PEOPLE and it's NOT A FINISHED PRODUCT, you'll get value from it as a reader. If you believe something because it's written on the Internet, you're in trouble.
Often I then mention things like the 0.5 CD or the 2007 Selection For Schools DVD - which are in fact finished static products, which can reasonably be assessed as finished products. The latter is an excellent example, actually, because SOS Children basically made it to use it in their own schools.
- d.