[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

[Phil Sandifer]

On Feb 24, 2007, at 9:35 PM, William Pietri wrote:

>
> Putting them all at the top of an article made sense early on, when  
> the
> ratio of editors to readers was higher. But at some point, wouldn't we
> want to hide more of the plumbing where the average reader never  
> sees it
> unless the go looking?

Yes - absolutely. But on the other hand, we should take a long, hard  
look at the plumbing - I'm unconvinced that it would pass health  
inspections, to continue your restaurant metaphor.

-Phil