Well, recognizing that Wikipedia itself is becoming a cultural object, wouldn't it make sense at the very least to say "When it is more notable than its inclusion in Wikipedia would be"? ;-)
Put more simply, if I were in EB, it would be pretty amazing and the most notable thing about me ("Otherwise unnotable man included in Encyclopedia Brittanica," the headlines would proclaim). However if I was more notable than my inclusion into EB would be, then it wouldn't be any big deal if they had an article on me -- it might even be expected, if they specialized in breadth.
Of course, the problem with this is that it is self-reinforcing policy! That is, if the standard for inclusion to Wikipedia went down, then the likelihood of having a Wikipedia article about something would go up, which would in turn affect a standard for inclusion based on the likelihood of an article being in Wikipedia... and so on.
FF
On 9/6/05, Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/6/05, Travis Mason-Bushman travis@gpsports-eng.com wrote:
On 9/6/05 2:22 PM, "Sam Korn" smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
This is a question to which I don't know the answer. If we can get an answer (and I doubt we will), then it would determine the whole future of Wikipedia.
The question is fundementally "what is more important, wiki-, or
-pedia?"
Our social policies are not a suicide pact. They are in place to help us write the encyclopedia... We need to take due process seriously, but we
also
need to remember: this is not a democracy, this is not an experiment in anarchy, it's a project to make the world a better place by giving away
a
free encyclopedia. --Jimbo Wales
That says it all to me.
-FCYTravis @ en.wikipedia
"Imagine a world in which every person has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your help."
The line between knowledge and trivia is becoming smaller. As the power of computers to store, sort, retreive, and present information in meaningful ways increases, our need for exclusivity, born in the days of chiseled stone slabs, clay tablets, and painted pottery, fades rapidly.
Something revolutionary has begun.
Until we face media shortage, a real relevant question is "At what point does a combination of data become knowledge worth recording?"
-- Michael Turley User:Unfocused _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l