From: Peter Jaros on Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:17 PM On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 03:51 AM, magnus,manske wrote:
OK, let's make this quick: What we need is a non-editable subset of wikipedia, correct?
Hold up. Do we? Is this to be a paper or electronic encyclopedia?
Or
both? Or am I talking about two different proposals? It seems a
shame
to me to freeze and de-wikify entries if not for the sole purpose of inscribing it on a medium that can't be edited (ie., paper). I would much prefer a tagging system which allows us to mark entries as complete. Note that 'complete' is not the same as 'finished'. No entry should ever be finished. But some entries have achieved completion, where the need only adjustment; think opposite of stub. Furthermore, these entries rarely devolve from their complete status, though if they did for some reason the tag could be quickly removed (or, preferably, the entry re-completed :) ).
What is your definition of "completion" that you can assert that some entries have achieved it?
Completion is a final state (thus "achieved"); any changes to something which is complete ("having all necessary or normal parts; absolute, total") will make it worse.
I think perhaps the word you're looking for is "sufficient".