[WikiEN-l] Hypothetical print version (was Paper is not paper)

Tue Oct 4 23:37:19 UTC 2005

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Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> Here's a plan. What if we lower the threshold for speedy deletion, but keep
> speedily deleted articles viewable by all logged in users for one week?
Lower? Certainly it's ok now, other then the controversial new copyvio
stuff. And most speedily deleted articles either should not be viewable,
or just wouldn't be very useful. Almost all speedied articles look
something like "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" (which needs to be removed very
quickly, as we will run out of these letters!), or otherwise are patent
nonsense. And there are attack pages, etc, etc.

Additionally, since we have been talking about wikipedia not being
paper, and paper not being paper, and publishing costs, etc...don't
forget that there could (and SHOULD) eventually be a print version of
wikipedia. If the foundation doesn't do it, someone else probably will.
Of course, to be comprehensive enough in the mainstream topic areas that
would be expected in an encyclopedia, we will also gain a lot of extra
stuff that would not be expected in an encyclopedia.

No way would we fit in the 30 volumes of Britannica for this
hypothetical print release! Anyway, what if we had a feature in the
Wikipedia 1.0 idea, where we could rate how useful the inclusion of an
article in a print version would be. This would allow anyone making a
print version, be it the foundation, or someone else, to trim wikipedia
easier. Certainly you could do it by hand, but eek. that's huge. With
our current database dumps, it would already not be unreasonable to make
a script to automatically remove articles with stub tags in them.
Obviously these would be worthless in a print version.

What do you all think?

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