I'd like to know what you define as "noise". Is it
Rambot? Stubs on celebrities? How can you tell noise
from articles that you just aren't interested in?
Meelar
Basically,
what is happening here is the building
of a parallel World Wide
Web inside the
wikipedia.org domain
And actually he is perfectly right: That *is* our
biggest problem. Not the
copying, not errors, not the missing editors, not
the enthusiasts he
mentions. But the "superfluous trivia". Our problem
is noise, in en: even
more as in de:. The noise repells qualified authors
and editors. This is the
reason why the article quality does not increase the
way that should be
expected given the idea behind wikipedia and the
popularity and it already
has.
As an encyclopaedia, we should reduce noise. Instead
we are creating noise by
accepting articles on any subject. For me - opposing
that
noise-accepting-policy since one and a half years
now - that outsiders
statement is very interesting.
Uli
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