[WikiEN-l] Page freezing on "good" articles

Fri Oct 28 04:33:36 UTC 2005

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Bryan Derksen wrote:
> Geoff Burling wrote:
> 
>> The continuing arguments around VfD/AfD suggests that some of the
>> community does not understand -- or believe -- that there is a goal
>> to this project, a place where our Wiki will eventually end. I suspect
>> that FF has found another end point to our Wiki.
>>  
>>
> Britannica has been editing and rewriting and adding to their
> encyclopedia for two hundred and thirty-seven years now, with no sign
> that they're planning to stop changing stuff and publish the "Final
> Encyclopedia" any time soon. Why do you think Wikipedia is likely to
> start reaching an "endpoint" any time in the forseeable future? I think
> a version-rating method is probably vital in the near future to prevent
> our best articles from backsliding, we've become good enough in many
> areas that IMO this is a real concern. But we're nowhere near "done,"
> and since the corpus of human knowledge is itself constantly changing I
> doubt we ever will be.
> 

If you compare Britannica's articles on some "old dead dude" from the
1911 version and the 2005 version I think you would find that they
really haven't changed.

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