On 24 September 2010 13:43, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
For certain readers, heavy emphasis on "structured data" would exactly cover what they want: the world in an infobox. Of course many of said readers may be machines, and not signed up to PayPal. Readers' charter versus writers' charter? The things that WP actually has do sound more like the readers' charter: massive updates, articles that may be little more than "watch this space" but are at least there, hypertext surfing as a given of design (underestimated by people who assume articles are read through if at all). "Structured data" does little or nothing for writers' job satisfaction.
Yes, but we have *way* more stamp collectors than we do good writers. (Hence the awful Wikipedia house style.) Filling out one's data collection is *fun*.
- d.