[Wikipedia-l] beat Britannica!

Sun Sep 22 19:32:51 UTC 2002

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>If we did have such a spec then there would be more reason than ever for 
>people to make sure sub-500 byte stubs are fleshed-out.
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>-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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I agree completely: for some people the "game" of adding tiny stubs to 
see the article count go up would be replaced by the "game" of enlarging 
tiny stubs into 500-character mini-articles for the same reason. 
Combined with the Wikipedia community as a quality-control mechanism, 
this can only have a beneficial effect, leading to more development 
towards useful content.

Neil