[WikiEN-l] Britannica quote of the day

[Neil Harris]

Justin Cormack wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2006, at 13:18, Steve Bennett wrote:
>
>   
>> On 3/27/06, Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>>     
>>> That's why we should now, after hitting the psychologically important
>>> 1,000,000 article mark in the en: encyclopedia, be focusing on  
>>> quality
>>> improvement, not growth.
>>>       
>> *'''Support'''
>>     
>
> You obviously hang around in different subject areas than I do. We are
> missing tens of thousands of articles completely, not even stubs. Our
> coverage of architecture is scanty to say the least, just as one  
> example.
>
> Not to say we shouldnt be improving things.
>
> Justinc
>
>   
I don't believe that a drive for quality is incompatible with the 
complementary goal of comprehensively covering all known specialist 
topics. It's more a matter of focus, since our topic coverage is now 
undeniably better than any general encyclopedia (and continuing to get 
better rapidly), but our article quality is currently much more patchy.

-- Neil