[WikiEN-l] What to do about our writing quality?

[Thomas Dalton]

On 23/05/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> The evolved Wikipedia house style is a grey stodgy morass. Some bits
>  are better written than others, but it's getting noted:
>
>  http://www.edexcellence.net/flypaper/index.php/2008/05/wikipedia-enabling-the-dumbest-generation/#comment-606
>
>  (that's a blog post quoting a book that isn't online)
>
>  How to fix this scalably?

Are featured articles are better written than other articles? If not,
requiring it of new featured articles would be a good first step.

As with most things like this, we need to fully investigate the
problem before we can come up with a meaningful solution.