[WikiEN-l] Guardian article about Wikipedia

[Justin Cormack]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:52 +0100, Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 10/24/05, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
> > The Britannica guy wants us
> > to write 26000 words in one article about encyclopaedias, obviously
> > hasnt understood the web.
> 
> Actually his point wasn't that we should produce 26,000 words.  It was
> rather that by contrast to the Britannica article of that length, ours
> runs to a mere 2000.  This is surprisingly short, given the subject. 
> If we can manage 750 words on Squeaky Fromme, why so few on
> Encyclopedia?

But how much of this would be in other articles? I suspect most. There
are lots of articles in the category. It is true that is pretty crap
with respect to history and has too much POV stuff, and doesnt talk
about lots of stuff it should though.

Justinc