Tony Sidaway wrote:

Meanwhile if you can compile a list of important articles that have not fared well under the wiki (I submit that this could be a fairly brief list, perhaps 1,000 or so) perhaps a team of interested individuals can take those articles off the main wiki and hothouse them for a while--or even, as you suggest, rewrite from scratch. I'd be interested to see if this approach produces significantly better articles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should...

We don't even need to disrupt normal operation of the wiki - we need people to get all those articles up to Featured quality and hopefully actual Featured Article status.

(And the same for other languages.)

All those who talk about how we need to stop writing stuff and just polish up what we have: there's a starter list, a bit over 0.1% of the articles on en: . Start a WikiProject for it. It's thoroughly worthwhile work and needs people to slog through it.

- d.