[WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism

Thu Nov 6 18:48:37 UTC 2003

"Alex Rosen" <arosen at novell.com> schrieb:
> "Wikipedia is not paper, but it is also not a collection place
> for trivia. It remains an encyclopedia, which remains that we do have
> to
> have some limits on what is and what is not interesting."
> 
> Here's how I interpret Jimbo's stance: "Wikipedia 1.0" (the eventual
> edited version) will be an encyclopedia, but Wikipedia is not now
> actually an encyclopedia. And to get to the eventual 1.0 version, it's
> better to encourage contributors, even if that means that a lot of
> non-encyclopedic content is added, because this kind of inclusionist
> policy will encourage more encyclopedic content as well (by not pissing
> people off by deleting things that they write).
> 
> I don't know if that's true, but I think his view on this is important,
> and I'm tired of arguing about this (both here and on VfD), and I think
> we need a firm policy. And I'm OK with this policy.

It's a point of view, but I don't share it. In my opinion, we should try to get Wikipedia be as much of an encyclopedia as possible. Having a  stable and published version will be interesting, but to me Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that we are making.

Andre Engels