[WikiEN-l] CZ fork: Tendrl

[Fred Bauder]

> On 11 December 2010 17:36, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know everybody is tired of hearing me bang on about this, but the
>> whole "Featured article" edifice has always seemed dubious to me. It
>> seems to concentrate our limited resources on a tiny number of
>> articles, and the emphasis has always been more on dotting eyes and
>> crossing tees than improving overall quality of coverage.
>
> As far as I know, only a small minority of Wikipedians work on getting
> articles featured. There are plenty that like to create lots of
> articles that are just of reasonable quality. There are plenty that
> like to go around making small improvements to lots of existing
> articles. A big part of Wikipedia's success is our diverse community.
> There are lots of jobs that need doing (including dotting i's and
> crossing t's) and everyone can choose for themselves which job they
> want to do and (rather amazingly) we end up with almost every job
> getting done (there are a few backlogs that build up, but relative to
> the size of the project they are pretty small).
>

Like what goes on the Main Page, featured articles is pretty much a snake
pit (IMO), but a small group gets a lot out of both of them, so it's
fine, but not central. You gotta give the devil his due.

Fred

User:Fred Bauder