On 11/30/05, kosebamse@gmx.net kosebamse@gmx.net wrote:
A helpful approach would be to stop accepting new articles, take our content, scrutinise it and rewrite it from zero.
It's a wiki. Dozens of good quality articles are written from scratch every single day, and ceasing to accept such new articles would not help to get the encyclopedia written.
Meanwhile if you can compile a list of important articles that have not fared well under the wiki (I submit that this could be a fairly brief list, perhaps 1,000 or so) perhaps a team of interested individuals can take those articles off the main wiki and hothouse them for a while--or even, as you suggest, rewrite from scratch. I'd be interested to see if this approach produces significantly better articles.