[WikiEN-l] The Economist on "notability"

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

On Sunday 09 March 2008 05:52, David Goodman wrote:
> Of course we have a responsibility to the web. we are writing an
> encyclopedia for use.

No, we're not.

I'm not here because I want to provide an encyclopedia to others.  I'm here 
because I want to *work on an encyclopedia*.  I couldn't care less whether 
other people read it or like it.

> Though I know this may come as a foreign idea to 
> some wikipedians, we're not a computer game, but a practical project.

Perhaps some approach it that way; I don't.
-- 
Kurt Weber
<kmw at armory.com>