Am Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2004 18:51 schrieb Fred Bauder:
An interesting quote from this blog:
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