[Wikipedia-l] subpages

[Larry Sanger]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jan Hidders wrote:

> From: <kband at www.llamacom.com>
> >
> > Why should I have to do that if it can be automated?
> >
> > Putting in many days of work into making the most popular entries on
> > the site (pat pat) is ridiculous. Having automatic functionality
> > making that work easier isn't.
>
> You are right, and ridiculous is certainly not a word that I would have
> used. But the thing is that by making such things easier we also stimulate
> the creation of subpages which, as Larry will explain to you if his wife
> lets him, :-), is something that we'd rather not have in Wikipedia. Maybe
> you don't agree with that, but then you should try to convince Larry and the
> rest of the Wikipedia-gang that subpages are a good thing. That won't be
> easy.

You'd actually have a hard time convincing me that it's worth spending any
more bandwidth discussing it at all.

(Wife is calling me to dinner right now. :-) )

Larry