[WikiEN-l] Re: Can you trust Wikipedia?

[Puddl Duk]

> >Lest I sound too harsh, remember that the OED, also written with the
> help of volunteers, took over fifty years to fully publish.
>
> Yes, but the bulk of the slips (submissions) came in during five years.
> About where we are now?
>
> Charles
>

Well, I hope it doesn't take another 45 years to sift through and
organise all our submissions :)

But we are going to have to adapt or we'll be relpaced. Early in the
project any information coming in was good  (a poorly written article
being better than no article, usually).  As articles mature there will
be a point where they stop improving, on average, by random edits. I'm
not a fan of page freezing, I'd prefer some kind or released vs
working version, plus a mechanism for rev rolling (only for 'released'
articles). Or any other check-valve that obstructs the random
degeneration while still allowing constant improvement.