[WikiEN-l] The London Review of Books on Wikipedia
Charles Matthews
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Mon Jun 22 09:40:47 UTC 2009
Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Charles Matthews wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, I commend the triangle: currency, comprehensiveness, quality.
>> Most people around the wiki can probably plot themselves somewhere in
>> the interior, and this gives a kind of map of pr[i]orities.
>>
> I wouldn't see it as a triangle, but as a bi-polarity with currency
> being a variation of comprehensiveness in the time dimension.
The fact that Lih made an issue on the timeliness of the inclusion of
[[Pownce]] start-up, whose mayfly life was within 2008, while my current
interests are (as you know) getting DNB-level detail on the 17th century
into enWP suggests to me that these priorities are worth distinguishing.
Charles
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