[WikiEN-l] Response to Nick Carr on Wikipedia and Web 2.0

[JAY JG]

>From: Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com>
>
>I like your idea of adopting the Economist house style, but a lot of kids
>are taught in schools to write unimaginably long, tedious essays on quite
>trivial subjects, so they have to learn how to trim out the waffle when 
>they
>come to writing for real readers.

Is anything too trivial for Wikipedia, if it is to become "the sum of all 
human knowledge"?

Jay.