On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:03:22PM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
On 8/22/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/21/06, Andrew Dunbar hippytrail@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe if there were a "go to a random article in need of cleanup" feature then more people would do just that...
There is one. You navigate to the category and pick the first one off the list. As it happens, the randomization algorithm has a strong bias toward page names starting with Aaaaaaaaaa, but that's not relevant to addressing the quality of the encyclopedia, is it? I doubt anyone's going to notice or care that our articles beginning with A are higher-quality than those starting with M . . .
In fact maybe they already do this and nobody actually does notice or care (-:
Actually, it *is* useful for the 'randomization algorithm' to be a bit more... random than that; it spreads the work around, and reduces the "40 people all trying to fix [[Afghanistan]]" problem.
Cheers, -- jra