Cimon Avaro wrote:
(pardon my french) The original french encyclopaedists made a point of detailing as many crafts and industries as possible, down to the most minute detail, with graphic illustrations capable of practical implementation. This is what made them notable in their own time as spreading the industrial revolution.
And the ones in the English tradition have tended to shy away from instructional material and language.
Again, different cultures will have different ideas about how to best organize information. The instructional/informative and textbook/encyclopedia distinction seems to me to be rather prevalent in the English language tradition.
But different cultures may have different ways of doing things. However, much of the current situation can be fixed by converting the recipes into encyclopedia articles (informative voice) and moving the rest to Wikibooks.
Both projects would benefit from this.
I do not favor deletion.
-- mav
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Daniel Mayer a écrit:
Cimon Avaro wrote:
(pardon my french) The original french encyclopaedists made a point of detailing as many crafts and industries as possible, down to the most minute detail, with graphic illustrations capable of practical implementation. This is what made them notable in their own time as spreading the industrial revolution.
And the ones in the English tradition have tended to shy away from instructional material and language.
Again, different cultures will have different ideas about how to best organize information. The instructional/informative and textbook/encyclopedia distinction seems to me to be rather prevalent in the English language tradition.
But different cultures may have different ways of doing things. However, much of the current situation can be fixed by converting the recipes into encyclopedia articles (informative voice) and moving the rest to Wikibooks.
Both projects would benefit from this.
I do not favor deletion.
-- mav
Usually...the next step when I try to speak again, is to tell me that I can do whatever I want on the french wikipedia, but that this is the english wikipedia.
I should list the most frequently used arguments to make people shut up...hum...idea :-) !