[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia--A parallel World Wide Web?

Thu Jun 3 12:51:58 UTC 2004

I'd like to know what you define as "noise".  Is it
Rambot? Stubs on celebrities? How can you tell noise
from articles that you just aren't interested in?

Meelar

> > Basically, what is happening here is the building
> of a parallel World Wide
> > Web inside the wikipedia.org domain
> 
> And actually he is perfectly right: That *is* our
> biggest problem. Not the 
> copying, not errors, not the missing editors, not
> the enthusiasts he 
> mentions. But the "superfluous trivia". Our problem
> is noise, in en: even 
> more as in de:.  The noise repells qualified authors
> and editors. This is the 
> reason why the article quality does not increase the
> way that should be 
> expected given the idea behind wikipedia and the
> popularity and it already 
> has.
> 
> As an encyclopaedia, we should reduce noise. Instead
> we are creating noise by 
> accepting articles on any subject. For me - opposing
> that 
> noise-accepting-policy since one and a half years
> now - that outsiders 
> statement is very interesting.
> 
> Uli

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