On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:01:45 +0000, "Andreas K." <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > There was a lengthy discussion recently on en:WP at > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#FAC_spends_too_much_time_on_trivial_topics > > > > about the fact that many featured articles – at least on en:WP – are about > niche topics, while so-called "vital articles" (VA), i.e. core topics that > any encyclopedia would be expected to cover well, are underperforming, with > comparatively few making FA or GA. Looking at the VA list, > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VA > > topic areas like philosophy, languages and social sciences seem to be doing > particularly poorly. >
Whereas it is an important issue, I believe it can only be resolved by wikiprojects who can compile their priority lists and collectively work on the most important articles. At some point, about three years ago, I tried to organize in Russian Wikipedia an umbrella wikiproject cross-project work on VA. It was never a success. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
