There is certainly a lot of low hanging fruit.
I don't think we've covered more than a few percent of the topics
currently considered notable.
We still have a factor of 10 or more to grow covering things that
others have already included in existing summaries and references.
But the parallel to F
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:17:18 +0100, WereSpielChequers
wrote:
> I wouldn't describe a short article as "hardly useful for creation" I
> created http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass,_California only
> three years and already the current article is five times the size of
> what I created. It
Strongly agree - they are very worthwhile indeed. They give others in future
the confidence to add incremental changes. A blank page is harder to broach.
What matters more is whether the article has scope to be encyclopedic.
Traditional encyclopedias often had one sentence or 2 line entries as wel
>> You have an expert knowledge in this topic, namely the knowledge of
>> Russian language. Most of English Wikipedia editors don't.
>>
<...>
>
> Most unilingual English editors are surprised by the vast quantity of
> low hanging fruit. Out of curiosity at one time I looked up the fairly
> comm
On 06/03/11 3:46 AM, Victor Vasiliev wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>> this would be 10 years of my work. Note that this is just a narrow topic
>> which does not overlap with my professional interest (I am a theoretical
>> physicist specializing in nanoscience)
On 3 June 2011 14:54, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> For the usability, last time I checked the usability wiki was dead as well
> as the Wikiproject Usability on en.wp. If someone can show me what would be
> an appropriate place to list my issues (meaning there is somebody there who
> can use them)
> You are interested in this topic; many users (or most, I am afraid) are
> not.
>
> You have an expert knowledge in this topic, namely the knowledge of
> Russian language. Most of English Wikipedia editors don't.
>
> There is a plenty of low-hanging fruits in classical music articles
> (especia
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> this would be 10 years of my work. Note that this is just a narrow topic
> which does not overlap with my professional interest (I am a theoretical
> physicist specializing in nanoscience). In this field, I am just an amateur
> (may be s
