On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Fastfission wrote:
Obviously anything "can" be improved. But when articles hit a state where most of their edits are incremental additions of misc. information, rather than real contributions of encyclopedic content, I think it's worth asking whether or not that's helping anything.
I am reminded of a comment that Ward Cunningham who invented the Wikiwiki software, is alleged to have said to Jimbo, way back when Wikipedia was but a few weeks old. He observed that a Wiki is nothing more than an ongoing conversation (kinda like what happens between academics with their specialized journals & conferences), but which never can be brought to an end -- unlike anything written for publication.
The continuing arguments around VfD/AfD suggests that some of the community does not understand -- or believe -- that there is a goal to this project, a place where our Wiki will eventually end. I suspect that FF has found another end point to our Wiki.
Geoff