[WikiEN-l] "Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?"

[Charles Matthews]

Steve Summit wrote:
>  Inclusion and notability policies
> ought to be based neither on what an anonymous contributor is
> interesting in writing, nor what a self-appointed policy wonk
> deems "notable" or "encyclopedic", but rather, on what some
> nontrivial numbers of our readers are interested in reading.
>
>   
I think that is "could be", not "ought to be". The mission is not to 
maximise readership: as of early  2009, it still to "write the 
encyclopedia". You know, the old Wikipedia some of us have thought we 
are writing for a few years now.

As usual, there is the argument that if this other version of the 
mission was interesting enough to enough editors, they could fork.  Not 
likely to happen, but it's a clarifying thought: really, how different 
would it be?

Charles