[WikiEN-l] Preloading template in new articles

[Phil Sandifer]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

>> 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.

I doubt it. Now we're an encyclopedia that's becoming increasingly  
difficult to edit and that nobody trusts.

-Phil