Magnus Manske wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
* Various lists of what *should* be in a
single-volume encyclopedia.
Completing these lists would be a fine program for volunteer
recruitment, by the way.
Did someone start such a list? If so, please give me a link...
According to
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0852298323/002-7007605-870005…
the concise Britannica contains ~28000 articles, which could be a
number to aim for.
Selecting the topics could be eased by using the category system.
That makes me a little nervous - we already have a problem with people
who agglomerate more and more text into longer and longer "articles"
instead of using hyperlinks to make things more readable. Marking an
article as one of the "chosen" will just incentivize to do even more
of that. I think you'd need some kind of cutoff mark in articles
(which has been discussed previously), plus some kind of daily query
that budgets by words rather than article count. If for instance
someone add a sentence to [[tuna]] and thereby exceeds the 100Kword
limit for science topics, whip out the list of longest science articles
and start fighting about what to cut. :-)
It also occurs to me that these would be categories that you would
not want displayed by default...
Stan