Am Sonntag, 27. Juli 2003 06:51 schrieb Daniel Mayer:
We can use Erik's idea for adding neat features to
the Brilliant prose page
as a start. Then that page can act as a queue for articles that Nupedia can
take-up and then put through a simplified Nupedia polishing process by area
experts. The Sifter software can be used to make this easy but it is not
really needed.
But a stable distribution vetted by area experts (at the very least by
people with baccalaureate degrees in the subject area) /is/ a very
important thing for us to have.
I do not beleive that this is a very good idea. You can do this, of course,
the GNU FDL allows it. However, I feel like Wikipedia should be cannibalized
that way, sorry.
I agree that stable and accepted articles are important to have (for quoting
and so on). I do not agree that defining those versions must be done by
"people with baccalaureate degrees in the subject area". It would be far more
important to get these experts *Writing* instead of editing.
I am not in favour of a system where a lot of people drive thousands of
articles to a certain (excellent) state, and a few experts get the merits by
selecting the articels, making some smaller copyedits and then calling that
the "real" encyclopaedia, implicitly stating that the Wikipedia is not
serious at all.
Uli