On 13/07/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)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.