Just what is a "reasonable" level of quality?
That depends on the person and their purpose in looking up the information.
I don't understand this answer.
on 7/7/08 4:56 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Someone just satisfying idle curiosity is going to require a lower level of quality than someone doing research for their doctoral thesis. The level of quality of Wikipedia at the moment is somewhere between the two.
"Somewhere between the two" is the very definition of mediocrity.
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I'm not talking about ideologies, I'm talking about whether or not the proposed project will actually work. It's a brilliant idea from an ideological standpoint and I agree with the values it represents, but if it isn't actually going to work...
And you're absolutely certain of that?
For an encyclopaedia to be successful, you need people to actually read it.
And how do you get them to do that?
Marc