Wikipedia is still young; we can expect quite a lot of
embarassing stubs so far because there's so much work ahead
of us still. I'm not discouraged about it because I think it's a
realistic expectation that we /will/ have many stubs with less than
2 years of contributions logged. Personally, I'm not thinking so
much of immediate gratification: I expect stubs, and so I'm
pleasantly surprised when I run across an article that's
informative and nearly complete. I think it just takes time and
diligent effort.
This is the Great Wall of China of encyclopedias we're building
here, and I'm content to add a layer here, patch up the mortar
there, and help cart bricks over there. Personally, I expect to be
quite proud of wikipedia and my contributions to it by the time I'm
50 (I'm 27). I don't expect to be proud of wikipedia tomorrow,
except as a proof of concept and a thumbing of the nose to
copyright.
kq
Ed Wrote:
>It seems to me we are trying to impove the number and quality
of our articles, merely by making a policy:
>
>1. All articles will be brilliant prose.
>2. No useless stubs!
<snip>
>Our problem is not "stub policy". We just don't have enough
contributors.