[WikiEN-l] Totally unscientific investigation...
Poor, Edmund W
Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com
Wed Nov 9 14:22:43 UTC 2005
> >If we mark articles as bad or stub, we could keep them
> somewhat hidden
> >from
> >the public.
>
> Ah, the insidious plausibility of the worst ideas!
>
> The default must be that we keep the stubs in view, unless
> people somehow
> opt otherwise. How else are we going to get the encyclopedia
> written? I
> thought there was anyway consensus that the content took
> priority over all
> else, including impressing people with excessively tidy minds.
>
> Charles
Fine, make "stub-hiding" an optional feature. Users who want to conceal
stubs or other sub-standard articles can set a "user preferences" option
to do so.
And let's tell magazines that review our project to judge us by our
"good" articles, once Magnus's feature has had a chance to get going.
Ed Poor
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