Am Sonntag, 27. Juli 2003 06:51 schrieb Daniel Mayer:
We can use Erik's idea for adding neat features to the Brilliant prose page as a start. Then that page can act as a queue for articles that Nupedia can take-up and then put through a simplified Nupedia polishing process by area experts. The Sifter software can be used to make this easy but it is not really needed.
But a stable distribution vetted by area experts (at the very least by people with baccalaureate degrees in the subject area) /is/ a very important thing for us to have.
I do not beleive that this is a very good idea. You can do this, of course, the GNU FDL allows it. However, I feel like Wikipedia should be cannibalized that way, sorry.
I agree that stable and accepted articles are important to have (for quoting and so on). I do not agree that defining those versions must be done by "people with baccalaureate degrees in the subject area". It would be far more important to get these experts *Writing* instead of editing.
I am not in favour of a system where a lot of people drive thousands of articles to a certain (excellent) state, and a few experts get the merits by selecting the articels, making some smaller copyedits and then calling that the "real" encyclopaedia, implicitly stating that the Wikipedia is not serious at all.
Uli