[WikiEN-l] Price we pay from the Deletionists: Y-Combinator looking to fund Wikipedia-like startup

[geni]

2008/7/20 Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com>:
> My issue is with where we currently place the threshold for incusion -
> it tends to be quite arbitrary, and informed by notions of what
> encyclopedias have previously contained. As a result, a much larger
> amount of verifiable information about pop culture falls under the
> threshold; while the threshold for science inclusion is much lower.

Not true. If we set our standards on what to include based on science
areas most popular culture stuff would barely register. Science
documents things. Even pretty obscure classes of organic compounds can
rack up 100s of papers and we don't come close to covering that level
of depth.





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geni