2012/5/3 Richard Jensen <rjen...@uic.edu>: > Looking at a spinoff Shakespeare article: [[Shakespeare's plays]]. It's peak > activity year was 2007. A dozen people made 10 or more edits. It has 26 > citations and no bibliography. There are no scholarly journals. Half the > citations are over 40 years old. Only one book was published after 2007. > That profile strongly suggests editors who are unfamiliar with current > scholarship.
I sense low-hanging fruit here. What academic wouldn't want his paper to be cited more? Wikipedia is not an academic source, but it's a hugely popular one. A correctly-done campaign to get academics and their students to cite recently published papers will benefit everybody. > Happily the article on [[WIlliam Shakespeare's Style]] is MUCH more > up-to-date. ~~~~ ... Which shows that a lot of is very intermittent and haphazard, but often in a good way. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
