----- Original Message ----- From: "David Gerard" <dger...@gmail.com> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
> You can hardly move on Wikipedia without tripping over experts in > whatever topic you're editing. Why are there any experts on Wikipedia? This is very telling. Someone is trying to select Philosophy articles for the Wikipedia 0.8 release. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Philosophy#Philosophy_articles_have_been_selected_for_the_Wikipedia_0.8_release They have left a message on the Philosophy project page which seems to have elicited no response. Now look at the list of articles selected. http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&namespace=0&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=100&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality&filterRelease=on&reviewFilter=0&releaseFilter=1&projecta=Philosophy Of the 22 'top importance' articles, 9 are start class, with tags like 'multiple issues', 'clean up', 'attention from expert required' and so on. 9 are C class, many also (e.g. metaphysics) have tags all over the place. 3 are B class (including one I wrote). Only one (philosophy of mind) is FA class, and that was written by a very good editor who has since given up. Of the high importance, many of these have been wrongly categorised (in some cases, incredibly so). _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
