[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia--A parallel World Wide Web?

[Dan Miller]

I'd like to know what you define as "noise".  Is it
Rambot? Stubs on celebrities? How can you tell noise
from articles that you just aren't interested in?

Meelar

> > Basically, what is happening here is the building
> of a parallel World Wide
> > Web inside the wikipedia.org domain
> 
> And actually he is perfectly right: That *is* our
> biggest problem. Not the 
> copying, not errors, not the missing editors, not
> the enthusiasts he 
> mentions. But the "superfluous trivia". Our problem
> is noise, in en: even 
> more as in de:.  The noise repells qualified authors
> and editors. This is the 
> reason why the article quality does not increase the
> way that should be 
> expected given the idea behind wikipedia and the
> popularity and it already 
> has.
> 
> As an encyclopaedia, we should reduce noise. Instead
> we are creating noise by 
> accepting articles on any subject. For me - opposing
> that 
> noise-accepting-policy since one and a half years
> now - that outsiders 
> statement is very interesting.
> 
> Uli

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