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== Article length ==
== Article length ==


[[WikiIndex:Creating New Articles]] says, "An 'article' is a snippet of information about a given topic." That suggests the articles are supposed to be kept pretty short. What article length are we going for, on pages about individual wikis? [[Special:LongPages]] shows the longest article is the one about [[WikiIndex]] itself, at ~14,000 characters. That one's length probably shouldn't be taken into consideration, since it's a multilingual page. The next longest is [[RationalWiki (en)]], recent forked from [[:Template:RationalWiki]], at ~11,000 characters.
[[WikiIndex:Creating New Articles]] says, "An 'article' is a snippet of information about a given topic." That suggests the articles are supposed to be kept pretty short. What article length are we going for, on pages about individual wikis? [[Special:LongPages]] shows the longest article is the one about [[WikiIndex]] itself, at ~14,000 characters. That one's length probably shouldn't be taken into consideration, since it's a multilingual page. The next longest is [[RationalWiki (en)]], recently forked from [[:Template:RationalWiki]], at ~11,000 characters.


Should 11,000 characters be regarded as pretty much the maximum, and optimal for providing enough information but still being short enough to read and navigate comfortable for many users? So then, if anyone wanted to add content to such an article, he would need to remove something less important from that article. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 07:16, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Should 11,000 characters be regarded as pretty much the maximum, and optimal for providing enough information but still being short enough to read and navigate comfortable for many users? So then, if anyone wanted to add content to such an article, he would need to remove something less important from that article. It definitely limits how comprehensive such an article could be. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia weighs in at 53,000 characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia is 197,000 characters long. Articles definitely ''could'' include a lot more information, if that were what we were going for. [[User:Leucosticte|Leucosticte]] ([[User talk:Leucosticte|talk]]) 07:16, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
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