[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

Sat Jun 10 07:15:40 UTC 2006

On 6/9/06, Jesse W <jessw at netwood.net> wrote:
> > What, exactly, does an end-state Wikipedia project look like, to those
> > who would want us to stop adding new articles at some point?  How and
> > when would you say "stop"?
> When we have articles on every topic for which reputable sources can be
> found.

Sure that's your criteria?  I can, with a little effort, get multiple
reputable sources to document my travels to and from work every day (I
could drive by multiple Caltrans, TV and Radio station traffic cams,
take my own GPS log of the trip, video blog it, publish an ISBNed
print-on-demand book of it every day, etc).  I would certainly hope
that nobody felt it Wikipedia-worthy to create [[George William
Herbert's drive to work on Friday, June 10, 2006]].  Much less the
drive home, or the rest of the week and month.

We're past the point that lots of truly mundane boring stuff gets
reputably reliably recorded in an accessable manner, which would pass
the verifyable source test for WP.

We'll get to the point that most truly mundane things in public are so
recorded (hint: England has security cameras everywhere in most major
cities already).

-- 
-george william herbert
gherbert at retro.com / george.herbert at gmail.com