On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David Golumbia <dgolumbia@gmail.com> wrote:

a) "but for the shouting," many major Wikipedia areas, especially in core areas of human knowledge, are becoming effectively finished. there is nothing major left to do. that doesn't mean they will never change, or be expanded, etc., but as a general observation I think it has some strong prima facie evidence in its favor.

i know that's controversial in and of itself, but i have an even more controversial observation that I rarely hear discussed in wiki circles:

This is a point of view that depends on where you are editing from. There are national sport teams, ESPECIALLY on the women's side that do not have articles yet. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FIFA_national_women%27s_football_teams_by_class.png can give you an idea of this problem for football, which has had substantial work done to it.

The 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics are coming up. This means a whole bunch of NEW notable athletes will be eligible for articles. There is a need to improve these. Many of the core articles related to sport need work.

I'm not seeing a problem with running out of ideas. I do see a bit of a culture that discourages people from using red links though.

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