Carcharoth wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM, doc
<doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
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The community hasn't really woken up to the
fact that Wikipedia
is no longer only an open shelf needing to be stacked, but it is a
depository of a huge wealth of material that needs to be protected,
sorted and (urgently) sifted.
Agreed. Though is it annoying when you see people working on things to
address this, and then see critics, who inspired some people, carry on
criticising the meta-processes, instead of supporting efforts made to
improve those meta-processes.
The proposition is like this: X is to WP as WP is to
Encarta. Solve for
X, both conceptually (as a visionary), and in practical terms (if there
is a transition to manage, let's be the far-sighted ones ourselves).
I suspect Douglas Adams did the first part. What people will want is
something designed for display on a hand-held device. You summon up
first short versions of our "lead sections" and then, instead of a long
scroll, you get a menu with options like TOC, basic image, gallery,
"simple English", "stable version", "live version",
'"see also"... The
inherent simplicity of article = single live webpage is an artefact of
chunky great monitors.
Charles