> On 11 December 2010 17:36, Tony Sidaway <tonysida...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I know everybody is tired of hearing me bang on about this, but the >> whole "Featured article" edifice has always seemed dubious to me. It >> seems to concentrate our limited resources on a tiny number of >> articles, and the emphasis has always been more on dotting eyes and >> crossing tees than improving overall quality of coverage. > > As far as I know, only a small minority of Wikipedians work on getting > articles featured. There are plenty that like to create lots of > articles that are just of reasonable quality. There are plenty that > like to go around making small improvements to lots of existing > articles. A big part of Wikipedia's success is our diverse community. > There are lots of jobs that need doing (including dotting i's and > crossing t's) and everyone can choose for themselves which job they > want to do and (rather amazingly) we end up with almost every job > getting done (there are a few backlogs that build up, but relative to > the size of the project they are pretty small). >
Like what goes on the Main Page, featured articles is pretty much a snake pit (IMO), but a small group gets a lot out of both of them, so it's fine, but not central. You gotta give the devil his due. Fred User:Fred Bauder _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l