[Wikipedia-l] Quality vs Quantity

[J.L.W.S. The Special One]

Most established users and administrators focus on clearing backlogs,
dealing with vandalism, etc.

We need more dedicated article writers. I'm trying to be one.

2007/4/28, Mark Clements <gmane at kennel17.co.uk>:
> "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote in message
> news:a4359dff0704271734h1dbf5e98lf5fc65da1978b313 at mail.gmail.com...
> > > But I do think we should discuss it... is it better to have 1000 stubs
> > > or 100 long well-written articles?
> >
> > I think the key point here is when you want the encyclopedia to be
> > good. If you want it to be good now, then 100 long articles is best.
> > If you want it to be good in a couple of years, then 1000 stubs
> > (assuming they are good stubs, but that's another debate) is better.
> >
> > This is based on the assumption than stubs will eventually become
> > articles (and faster than non-existent pages do). This would suggest
> > that younger wikis will have more stubs.
> >
> > Any guesses on what happens to wikis at the 20,000 edits mark? It's an
> > amazingly sharp cutoff.
>
> I am primarily a reader/editor of en.wp, and if I enter a topic into the
> search and there is no article for it I tend to assume that either (a) the
> article exists under some other name, (b) the important information relating
> to the topic is already covered in some other related article or (c) the
> topic failed one of en.WPs exhaustive criteria for inlclusion and so is not
> welcome.
>
> Therefore I do nothing.
>
> In the 'good old days' I would (time permitting) write a stub for that
> topic.  However, nowadays I tend to assume that my contribution would not be
> welcome (either because the topic is already covered, or because it
> deliberately does not have an article).
>
> The point being that I would expect stub article creation to be pretty high
> in new Wikipedias, and to tail off as the Wikipedia in question comes to be
> seen as more authoritative.
>
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> - Mark Clements (HappyDog)
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