[WikiEN-l] Re: Quality

[Daniel P. B. Smith]

> From: geni <geniice at gmail.com>
>>  Who's going to create these million articles on garage bands?  
>> With 100,000
>> new garage band fans creating them we'll have no problem  
>> maintaining a
>> million articles on garage bands. I think realistically it'll be  
>> at least a
>> couple orders of magnitude smaller in both figures, but as long as  
>> we don't
>> allow automated creation of these articles the resources to  
>> maintain the
>> articles will scale right along with the creation of them.
>>  Anthony
>>
>
> You assume that the people who create these articles:
> a)stick around
> b)know all the wikimarkup and stuff

c) Know all the verifiability and citing sources and stuff (or are  
willing to learn)

d) Have "building a free encyclopedia" as a significant component in  
the mix of motives that drives them

e) _Care_ about article quality

f) Care _enough_ to spend some time putting in _work_ on the articles  
they create

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