Thanks for the feedback. One interesting point with my
little
test seems to be that the average quality of our content has
not much improved since March (or since 2003, as far as I can
remember).
A thought experiment: if we were the editorial committee of
an encyclopedia to be written from scratch and were given
Wikipedia's current content as a basis (but not the user
base), what would we do? I guess we would put our energy into
improving the material, i.e. rewriting/deleting/merging most
of it. But we would not try to acquire more articles of that
quality. (Ah wait, we ARE the editorial committee of an
encyclopedia to be written from
scratch...)
Kosebamse
I'm on the editorial committee of just such a project: the Unification
movement's "[[Encyclopedia Project]]" (see the WP article).
And what are we doing? We are putting our energy into improving a small
subset of Wikipedia articles + commissioning an even smaller number of
brand-new articles. Gosh, I wish I could give a few selected Wikipedians
a tour of the "work in progress". Maybe I'll show a few pages at the
Boston Wikimania meeting next year, if I get some stage/screen time.
Ed Poor