[WikiEN-l] Eternal Ephemeral

Sat Nov 1 07:41:35 UTC 2003

On Friday 31 October 2003 17:41, Geoff Burling wrote:
> The point I am trying to make is this: we should keep in mind that
> Wikipedia, because it is an encyclopedia, is a reference work. People will
> want to consult it to answer questions about people, events or facts. This
> leads to the critereon that before adding an article, one should consider
> whether it would be of interest beyond a clearly limited audience.

Once when search is back to Wikipedia, it would be possible to see unsuccesful 
searches - to see what people wanted to find, but didn't.