[WikiEN-l] Preloading template in new articles

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 23:37:33 UTC 2007


> This was, in fact, the original intended process for writing articles, no?
> With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow?  That's the whole concept behind
> the wiki/open source thing that the project is based on.  References were an
> afterthought, as indicated by our horrible kludgy support for them.

Absolutely - that *was* the whole idea. Unfortunately, that idea
didn't lead to an encyclopedia people trusted, so now, in order to be
credible, we have to reference everything. It's unfortunate, but
unavoidable, I think.



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