[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] comparison between Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia (German)

Thu Dec 15 20:13:16 UTC 2005

Sabine Cretella wrote:

> http://www.golem.de/0512/42221.html
> well ... this is why page creation by anonymous users is not so bad ...
> And why it is impossible that Encyclopedia britannica needs to proof and
> reproof each single word it writes
> http://www.golem.de/0512/42221.html
> "both" encyclopeadias - this means even that one that according to our
> infos needs to proof every single word - has the same amout of critical
> errors in the same articles only in different places ... - hmmmmm .....
> (sorry I don't have time to translate this article - maybe there's an
> English one around as well???)

I don't know German, so I'm leaving the URLs there for someone who does!

> Well I suppose it is time to go "back to ordinary" functioning of
> Wikipedia (anonymous users can create articles - this is even easier to
> check to my opinion - just switch off all registered users and have
> special regard to anonymous page creations).

I would very much like to see anon page creations go back on but with a
prefilled new article template, something like
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/034414.html

- d.