[WikiEN-l] Edit Wikipedia Week is coming. How not to bite the n00bs?

[David Goodman]

On 11/6/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007 11:48 AM, Monahon, Peter B. <Peter.Monahon at uspto.gov> wrote:
> [snip]
> >         The goal is not a 100% perfect encyclopedia.  The goal is a
> > COMMUNITY building an encyclopedia.  BUILDING, not BUILT.  It will never
> > be "built".  It will and should always be "in process", "under
> > construction", IMPERFECT!
>
> The direct form of process over product, that the purpose is community
> and not a useful encyclopedia, has been explicitly rejected by the
> English Wikipedia community last I checked. It's certainly a disputed
> position.
>
> Besides, there is a big difference between "a necessarily imperfect
> work in progress" and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_S._Patton&curid=42090&diff=169628093&oldid=169618698
>  (first diff on English WP RC when I loaded it) ... At least this
> instance of vandalism is probably not going to material harm to
> anyone.
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.