[WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism

Fri Nov 7 01:14:17 UTC 2003

Alex Rosen wrote:

>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).
>
A lot of our people on the deletionist end of the spectrum may be 
happier working on "1.0".  When it's ready for editing, it will need 
personnel.

Ec