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

[David Gerard]

On 06/11/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 6, 2007 11:48 AM, Monahon, Peter B. <Peter.Monahon at uspto.gov> wrote:

> >         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.


I think it's worth realising that we're a work in progress. I really
like [[WP:WIP]]. I'd try to make it shorter if I'd written it, but I
did add the list of red link lists at the end.

We are WAY less finished than you might expect from a top-10 reference site.


- d.