None ever published have approached either our size or our completeness. There is no experience, and no prior basis for public acceptance or non-acceptance. We have made many assumptions about what the public wants, but the public will want different things, and why should we think we can fulfill every preference at the same time? Perhaps the more rational approach is to do what our structure can do well, and let other projects in the future try other ways and other things and other goals.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:20 PM, geni<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/19 David Gerard <[email protected]>: >> The SOS Children Wikipedia Selection for Schools seems very cut-down, >> being only several thousand long articles from Wikipedia on a DVD ... >> so about half the size of the full printed Britannica, then. > > Although we still haven't worked out what size people will general > accept as a fairly complete general encyclopedia. > > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
