Fred, until I appoint you Editor-in-Chief of the print version, I'm going to ask you not to speak authoritatively about what it will or won't include. And I'm not going to appoint you Editor-in-Chief.
In fact, we're going to have a community process to determine what belongs, and that process is going to have as it's goal a particular sort of end result, with as clearly-defined parameters as I can make, based on the requirements of print and the overall design needs of a concise encyclopedia.
Random lists of trivia are very unlikely to make it. Remember, the size of Columbia (a typical concise encyclopedia) is 1/10th the size of Wikipedia. This means that 90% of what's in Wikipedia will *not* make it.
--Jimbo
Fred Bauder wrote:
It certainly will, and might very well land us in court. I am not at all sure about that list and how authoritative it is.
Fred
From: dpbsmith@verizon.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:26:29 -0600 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org, wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Selecting content of print version
Is the print version of Wikipedia going to have things in it like "List of famous gay, lesbian, and bisexual people" in it?
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