[WikiEN-l] WTF Have I Missed?

[Gordon Joly]

At 01:42 -0400 28/8/06, Delirium wrote:


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>
>I have the same opinion.  Most of the improvements to Wikipedia that
>have been ongoing, like requiring citations, improve the average quality
>of articles.  At any given second, though, the quality can always be
>quite abysmal.  A system like this one essentially smooths out the
>presented version, so the average reader sees something more like the
>average recent state of the article, rather than its instantaneous
>state.  That doesn't magically make articles good, but it reduces the
>number of times people see really bad articles.
>
>-Mark
>



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Peter_Palumbo

Gordo

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