On 4/2/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/2/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
I find the emphasis on PR troubling. Wikipedia is a work in progress and is emphatically not finished. We won't be able to fake this convincingly anyway, so why are we thinking of trying?
Because after 6 years, we have reached the End of History.
Heh.
I think some don't realise (because they don't work in the right areas) just how incomplete Wikipedia is in many topic areas, and thus how damaging shutting down article creation would be. In their view, Wikipedia already contains pretty much all the articles it needs and thus article creation is something only harmful (because all new articles are unencyclopedic cruft anyway).
-Matt