[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Tue Jul 14 13:35:40 UTC 2009


David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/7/14 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
>
>   
>> I think you're probably right that a new departure needs to be made:
>> we're at best mediocre at devising new "recognition mechanisms". How
>> about a project aimed (since we are coming up to three million articles)
>> at shifting the balance of stubs and other really substandard articles
>> before we get to four million?  We'll get to the end of the first decade
>> of WP in 2011 before that happens. And I think we need some kind of
>> two-dimensional plot, not single scale: urgency assessment as well as
>> quality assessment.
>>     
>
>
> I fear the first thing that would spring to the community's beautiful
> collective mind would be a mass deletion of all stubs.
>
>   
That's the issue with one-dimensional thinking, certainly.

Charles




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