"Alex Rosen" arosen@novell.com schrieb:
"Wikipedia is not paper, but it is also not a collection place for trivia. It remains an encyclopedia, which remains that we do have to have some limits on what is and what is not interesting."
Here's how I interpret Jimbo's stance: "Wikipedia 1.0" (the eventual edited version) will be an encyclopedia, but Wikipedia is not now actually an encyclopedia. And to get to the eventual 1.0 version, it's better to encourage contributors, even if that means that a lot of non-encyclopedic content is added, because this kind of inclusionist policy will encourage more encyclopedic content as well (by not pissing people off by deleting things that they write).
I don't know if that's true, but I think his view on this is important, and I'm tired of arguing about this (both here and on VfD), and I think we need a firm policy. And I'm OK with this policy.
It's a point of view, but I don't share it. In my opinion, we should try to get Wikipedia be as much of an encyclopedia as possible. Having a stable and published version will be interesting, but to me Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that we are making.
Andre Engels