At 08:25 PM 3/16/03 +0100, Pedro wrote:
I think this would be an attention (
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention)
principle : first the nowadays articles ( topics in the news).
For me, the attention principles would be :
1. General before particular ( specific ).
2. In the news topics before another ones ( this is over the 1st.
principle, if necessary).
As a practical matter, lots of people are already doing this, but the other
significant
factor is that people will write about what they know and care about. Once
in a while
someone like me will take an hour to do online research for a quick article on
something in the news (for example, I did a quick bio of the VP of
Venezuela when
he was briefly acting president), but I'm not suddenly an expert on the
history or
geography of Iraq.
The beauty of Wikipedia is that it has room for people to follow lots of
different
interests, and sometimes that means that when something hits the news, the
article is already there, written by someone who cared about that enough to
write about it instead of about whatever was in the headlines that week.
--
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr(a)redbird.org
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