[WikiEN-l] *sigh* it's sunday and the nuts are here

[Daniel Mayer]

tarquin wrote:
>But seriously, I'd like to propose a new "What Wikipedia is not" item:
>
>* a compendium of *all* human knowledge, no matter how trivial
>
>this means we don't have the nine million digits of pi; or the Helsinki 
>telephone book, or my shopping list from last week.

This isn't anything new. "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" is our third most 
important policy. That means that we don't include the entire gene sequences 
of organisms, source code for entire free-software programs and yes pi to one 
billion places (or anything above 40 places for that matter). 

These things have and should continue to be deleted right away and without any 
apology. I am surprised that the pi to x places entries weren't deleted right 
away. There are plenty of other places to mirror this information but 
Wikipedia isn't one of them. 

Focus people! We are building an encyclopedia. Granted a huge one, but an 
encyclopedia nonetheless. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)