[WikiEN-l] The downside of creating perfect articles

[Andrew Gray]

On 26/01/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/26/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As an aside, this is the other use for redlink farms - they're a
> > really good way to find places to put sensible redirects.
>
> Yeah. I can't help but feel that there ought to be an organised front
> end to all of this, though. Like a committee that says "There shall be
> a "Religion in X" article for every country. The list of countries is
> stored [[here]]. Redirects of the following forms will be set up for
> every country..."
>
> I mean I know Wikipedia isn't run top-down, but would it hurt to have
> a little management? Or should I say "leadership".

That's exactly what we have wikiprojects for! Perfect textbook example
of a good role for them - organising coverage on a specific subject,
getting the infrastructure (names, redirects) in place that they can
then come back and work on content

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk