QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Thu 25th June 2009, 11:28am)
QUOTE(MZMcBride @ Wed 24th June 2009, 8:22pm)
Wait a minute. Acronyms and initialisms aside, MBisanz is saying he's created featured lists and new articles (with "Did you know" hooks). Yet he's "failed to do anything to actually help create an encyclopedia"? I'm lost.
"Did you know" hooks are rarely encyclopedic; they're closer to "hey, look at the neat meaningless trivia I discovered", the sort of thing that the rest of us use Twitter to get. "Featured lists" are a concept invented by Wikipediots jealous that their writing skills (or political savvy) are too lame to negotiate the Featured Article minefield, so they too could get wikicabbage on their wikiuniforms. Creating lists is not remotely encyclopedic behavior; at best that is almanac level work.
When you guys start writing good, solid, high-level syntheses of broad topics for consumption by a general audience, that's when you'll be creating an encyclopedia. Discovering and cataloging mindless trivia doesn't cut it.
Well, yeah. Depends how well-educated and to what level you wish to learn about something,doesn't it? I love the idea of not treating people as lowest-common-denominator-dullards and trying to
expand knowledge with a depth hitherto unseen in a 'pedia (educate the masses and all that). Loved Eva's bridge articles, and some of the more obscure stuff. Got a real buzz researching Sirius when I buffed it up too.
i.e. may not be 'encyclopedic' if World Book is your idea of the acumen of encyclopedias
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