[WikiEN-l] Totally unscientific investigation...

[Poor, Edmund W]

> >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