Ahhhh it's always nice to quote someone other than Mike Godwin and it seems Betteridge's law of headlines is alive and well. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:26 PM Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Frederick. > > sure, I know. I am mostly writing about Russia, and I know there are a lot > of topics which are not covered. I am usually the first one who says that > there are many topics to even start an article on, and way more to improve. > > But let us face it - if an English-speaking person looks for something in > the English Wikipedia they are most likely to find it. The articles I > create are definitely useful, but they get dozens of views per year.This is > one of the reason we lose editors. > > But my point is that we are about to lose most of our editors - at least in > the first world countries which produce the most contribution in the > English Wikipedia, USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New > Zealand. I guess India is different, but the trend is global, I think it is > just a matter of time when it comes to that in India as well. And if > Wikipedia would die in these countries, it will die in India as well. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:14 PM Frederick Noronha < > fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > However, as a general guideline, it is not so > > > much incorrect to state that all important things in Wikipedia have > been > > > already written. Indeed, if someone looks for information in Wikipedia > - > > > or, more precisely, uses search engines and gets Wikipedia as the first > > hit > > > — they are likely to find what they need with more than 99% > chance. > > > > Yaroslav, Which world are you talking about? North America and Europe? > > > > When it comes to Asia (which I'm part of) and Africa, possibly Latin > > America too, we haven't even written down 1% of the diversity of these > > places. Leave aside getting it up onto the Wikipedia! > > > > Of course, I agree with the suggestion for new approaches (if I read you > > right). This is particularly true in a part of the world where much of > the > > discussion is still in the oral domain, is often not in print; when it's > in > > print, it is not digitised. Even when digitised, chances are that it's > in a > > non-English language, which is very hard to find very search engines. (No > > wonder that some of the prominent people from our regions are continually > > getting dismissed as non-notable, which I see as another form of > 'systemic > > bias'). > > > > Give it a thought, please. > > > > Frederick Noronha > > Goa > > > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 03:05, Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have written a long text today (posted in my FB) which the readers of > > > this mailing list might find interesting. I copy it below. I understand > > > that it is very easy to critisize me for side issues, but if you want > to > > > comment/reply I would appreciate if you address the main issue. The > > target > > > audience I was thinking about was general (not necessarily > > > Wikimedia-oriented), and for the readers from this mailing list the > first > > > several paragraphs can sound trivial (or even trivial and wrong). I > > > apologize in advance. > > > > > > > -- > > FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 > > AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha > > TEXT: http://bit.ly/2SBx41G PIX: http://bit.ly/2Rs1xhl > > Can't get through on mobile? Please SMS/WhatsApp > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Seddon *Community and Audience Engagement Associate* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
