On 24 September 2010 13:43, Charles Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:
> For certain readers, heavy emphasis on "structured data" would exactly > cover what they want: the world in an infobox. Of course many of said > readers may be machines, and not signed up to PayPal. Readers' charter > versus writers' charter? The things that WP actually has do sound more > like the readers' charter: massive updates, articles that may be little > more than "watch this space" but are at least there, hypertext surfing > as a given of design (underestimated by people who assume articles are > read through if at all). "Structured data" does little or nothing for > writers' job satisfaction. Yes, but we have *way* more stamp collectors than we do good writers. (Hence the awful Wikipedia house style.) Filling out one's data collection is *fun*. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
