Two stubs, but not needed!

[Tom Morris]

This morning, on the train, I wrote two stubs on my new 'netbook' (fancy name for really small laptop). An hour later, I'm sitting in the library ready to put the articles up only to find there are already two comprehensive articles on the subject. Those two articles? Vim and Red Dwarf (science fiction series). Awesome.

Completeness in an encyclopedia is a relative thing - the number of articles is pretty irrelevant. When you get to the point of writing two stubs and they are both already up there, that's a pretty good measure that we are progressing. 

Sorry I couldn't participate much in Write-A-Thon yesterday. Was in London, had people to see and lectures to attend. I've got five hours ahead of me and I'm in the British Library, so I'll see what I can come up with today.

[Aleta Curry]

Vim and Red Dwarf?  Does that say something about our writers?

Seriously, though, my mother is fond of saying that Rome wasn't built in a day.  Same with encylcopaedias, I guess.

We're getting there.  Still have major holes in oh, so many things, especially the Arts, but we're getting there!

[Tom Morris]

If it does say something about our writers, it says something about me too, since I did write stubs on them. 

Maybe that we are all unredeemably nerdy in the sort of idealistic way you'd have to be to set out to write an encyclopedia from scratch and think it might work. 

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

If it does say something about our writers, it says something about me too, since I did write stubs on them. 

Maybe that we are all unredeemably nerdy in the sort of idealistic way you'd have to be to set out to write an encyclopedia from scratch and think it might work. 

If the cinematic masterpiece Revenge of the Nerds I has not made it across the pond, one could reduce the concept to Bill Gates' net worth statement.