[WikiEN-l] 100, 000 FAs as an achievable goal with a plan (was Contest and quality)

Wed Sep 13 07:53:59 UTC 2006

On 13/09/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/06, Carl Peterson <carlopeterson at gmail.com> wrote:

> > What would be ideal is if we could establish a content-area (i.e.,
> > WikiProject) peer review as a prerequisite for the purposes of content (esp.
> > for technical articles) then have it go to a "Brilliant Prose Committee" of
> > qualified persons (e.g., people with actual degrees or a lot of experience)
> > to evaluate the writing style, the readibility, the grammar, etc. But that
> > borders on instruction creep and would be strongly opposed as it creates an
> > elite class distinction and would knock out all the lovely people who derive
> > meaning in life from firing torpedoes at FACs.

> You have suggested a committee. Generaly that isn't a good sign.

In particular, a committee won't scale to 100,000. What will?

- d.