On 11/07/07, Zoney zoney.ie@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia is a work-in-progress, but really if it's supposed to be an encyclopaedia, there shouldn't be public article content that's worse than an early 1990s website with "under construction" banners (editorial templates on articles?)
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.