[WikiEN-l] The downside of creating perfect articles

[George Herbert]

On 1/28/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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


It doesn't need a project; one sufficiently motivated individual can
populate a matrix of needed stubs rapidly by hand, for n up to 100 or
so.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com