Carcharoth wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM, doc <doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > <snip> >> The community hasn't really woken up to the fact that Wikipedia >> is no longer only an open shelf needing to be stacked, but it is a >> depository of a huge wealth of material that needs to be protected, >> sorted and (urgently) sifted. >> > > Agreed. Though is it annoying when you see people working on things to > address this, and then see critics, who inspired some people, carry on > criticising the meta-processes, instead of supporting efforts made to > improve those meta-processes. The proposition is like this: X is to WP as WP is to Encarta. Solve for X, both conceptually (as a visionary), and in practical terms (if there is a transition to manage, let's be the far-sighted ones ourselves).
I suspect Douglas Adams did the first part. What people will want is something designed for display on a hand-held device. You summon up first short versions of our "lead sections" and then, instead of a long scroll, you get a menu with options like TOC, basic image, gallery, "simple English", "stable version", "live version", '"see also"... The inherent simplicity of article = single live webpage is an artefact of chunky great monitors. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l