I'm sure there are vast amounts of topics local to India that are poorly covered, and pointing out that X, Y and Z still have holes is the standard response to any statement about "low-hanging fruit." But it's standard because it's easy, not because it meaningfully responds to the original point - which is that the English Wikipedia's pool of able and interested contributors is shrinking quite independently of any environmental problems.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:45 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 January 2013 15:29, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Most topics that are popular or > > significant to large groups of English-writing people are already well > > covered, narrowing the opportunities for those folks (who, let's recall, > > generally don't have advanced expertise of the type amenable to Wikipedia > > articles) to contribute. > > > So I hear this may not be at all the case, and that editors writing > about Indian topics complain of excessive trouble getting past US > editors' notability detectors. This is of course anecdote not numbers, > but I would suggest not ignoring it. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
