> I can appreciate what you are trying to do, but I
doubt that it's practical. If software could do this it would be great ... but then
someone would need to write the software, or is it safe to assume that you would be doing
that?
Ec<<
By the time of 1.0 English Wikipedia will be over 200,000 articles. Getting machine help
is not avoidable with that many articles. We must have machine help to identify what is
suitable for 1.0 and CD and whatever other subsets we produce. Instead of worrying about
our different size thresholds, we can try to sort out how we can identify what's
important and what tools we can use to help us work more productively.
Think of systems like
slashdot.com and how they use thresholds to decide how much detail
to show for each topic, with each reader chosing their own and each reader able to vote a
post up or down in significance. That's the sort of tool we need here, with every
reader able to and asked to help us by rating the articles they read.
When we have that we can use it to let people choose their encyclopedai size, from one
volume to 500 volumes. At that point, inclusionism or delitionism just doesn't matter,
because everyone gets their own personal ecyclopedia size.
Looking beyond that are editions (and corresponding flags) for censorship levels for child
or religious or school curriculum suitability, so we can generate truly custom works for
evey group of readers which can use a distinct subset of the work.
Expanding it to images, we end up with filter levels for copyright status, so someone who
needs only public domain or only GFDL images can get an edition with only those images in
it, while someone who's non-commercial and educational can get a visually richer one
with all of the fair use images included.
The puzzle for now is working out just what we need so we can set up a cohesive plan for
the developers.
I'm well committed on other open source development(SpamPal) but I enjoy tuning
software so I'm following the development mailing list but being quiet most of the
time because I know I'm otherwise occupied when it comes to programming. No telling
when I'll feel that I can give the development work here the time I'd like to
spend on it. My to do list is already way too long.:)