On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:03:22PM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
On 8/22/06, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/21/06, Andrew Dunbar
<hippytrail(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe if there were a "go to a random
article in need of cleanup"
feature then more people would do just that...
There is one. You navigate to the category and pick the first one off
the list. As it happens, the randomization algorithm has a strong
bias toward page names starting with Aaaaaaaaaa, but that's not
relevant to addressing the quality of the encyclopedia, is it? I
doubt anyone's going to notice or care that our articles beginning
with A are higher-quality than those starting with M . . .
In fact maybe they already do this and nobody actually does notice
or care (-:
Actually, it *is* useful for the 'randomization algorithm' to be a bit
more... random than that; it spreads the work around, and reduces the "40
people all trying to fix [[Afghanistan]]" problem.
Cheers,
-- jra
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