Well, recognizing that Wikipedia itself is becoming a cultural object,
wouldn't it make sense at the very least to say "When it is more notable
than its inclusion in Wikipedia would be"? ;-)
Put more simply, if I were in EB, it would be pretty amazing and the most
notable thing about me ("Otherwise unnotable man included in Encyclopedia
Brittanica," the headlines would proclaim). However if I was more notable
than my inclusion into EB would be, then it wouldn't be any big deal if they
had an article on me -- it might even be expected, if they specialized in
breadth.
Of course, the problem with this is that it is self-reinforcing policy! That
is, if the standard for inclusion to Wikipedia went down, then the
likelihood of having a Wikipedia article about something would go up, which
would in turn affect a standard for inclusion based on the likelihood of an
article being in Wikipedia... and so on.
FF
On 9/6/05, Michael Turley <michael.turley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/6/05, Travis Mason-Bushman <travis(a)gpsports-eng.com> wrote:
On 9/6/05 2:22 PM, "Sam Korn"
<smoddy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a question to which I don't know the answer. If we can get an
> answer (and I doubt we will), then it would determine the whole future
> of Wikipedia.
>
> The question is fundementally "what is more important, wiki-, or
-pedia?"
Our social policies are not a suicide pact. They are in place to help us
write the encyclopedia... We need to take due process seriously, but we
also
need to remember: this is not a democracy, this
is not an experiment in
anarchy, it's a project to make the world a better place by giving away
a
free encyclopedia.
--Jimbo Wales
That says it all to me.
-FCYTravis @ en.wikipedia
"Imagine a world in which every person has free access to the sum of
all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. And we need your
help."
The line between knowledge and trivia is becoming smaller. As the
power of computers to store, sort, retreive, and present information
in meaningful ways increases, our need for exclusivity, born in the
days of chiseled stone slabs, clay tablets, and painted pottery, fades
rapidly.
Something revolutionary has begun.
Until we face media shortage, a real relevant question is "At what
point does a combination of data become knowledge worth recording?"
--
Michael Turley
User:Unfocused
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