I do not see the reason why some people are in a panic. We are nowhere near a situation where we run out of topics. If anything real world topics such as science, history and etc will keep developing.
The problem we have today is that some peoples standards of inclusion is so low that it is compromising our content amount in bulk. In other words, there is a current substantial decrease in content amount as a result. - White Cat On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilh...@nixeagle.org>wrote: > Explain why :P > > Also as a secondary thought how many articles *can* we add? There is a > limit where adding new articles is going to be harder and harder to do > for the lack of worthy topics. The only way I can see a substantial > increase in new articles is if we relax our standards of inclusion > (not going to opine on if this is a good or a bad thing). > > For example we don't list every book ever created as its own article. > The same thought seems to go to the rest of the encyclopedia. We don't > have every person on this planet having a page. We don't have every > company having a page etc. > > There is a large but finite number of articles we can write... Once > those are started the work comes to improving the existing items, > Sourcing, improving prose, etc. This is the work that seems to be not > as popular... At least with newer folks. (I point to our huge > maintainace backlogs for articles as proof of this) > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
