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From: "Sj" <2.718281828(a)gmail.com>
To: <wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia is a general encyclopedia
Much of what apogr wrote is beyond me,
refer to dictionary.talk in en.wiki
but I was moved by this distillation of
key problems:
The problems, as I see them, include
a) uneven use of "scale"
b) no check for completeness on a particular level
I find these to be pervasive problems, both for WP as a whole (in
creating projects,
defining category-sets, identifying key subject areas), for each of
its subprojects
(in creating article-lists, identifying goals of equal importance,
covering an entire
topic), and for each individual article (in balancing detail across
aspects of an
article, maintaining consistent perspective, and maintaining a connection
with
other articles at higher and lower levels of detail).
+sj+
> b) it is a semi-finished colouring book with clolours of uneven
intensity
> c) it is a number of diligent tube-sighted
people caught in the process
of
lace-making
ps - these gems should surely go on the list of [[what wikipedia is]]...
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