[Wikipedia-l] CIA World Factbook

Robert Bihlmeyer robbe+wiki at orcus.priv.at
Fri Nov 9 16:15:16 UTC 2001


koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com writes:

> the [[/Government]] pages are the only ones that obsolesce quickly. 
> The rest (People, Communications, Military, Transportation, Economy,
> History)--barring catastrophes or other newsworthy events that people
> would really think of adding anyway--are fairly static.

Indeed.

> Maybe we could just come up with a script to update the Government
> each year? (I can think of a few that are past due right now) ;-)

Failing that, Wikipedians just need to train their habits: If you read
about a election in the papers (in your country, or anywhere), that
should immediately beg the question: has Wikipedia been updated yet?

-- 
Robbe
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