David Gerard wrote:
I'd like to work out some way of advocating the
"missing article"
lists to potential new contributors. On en:wp:
http://enwp.org/WP:WANTED
http://enwp.org/WP:MISSING
I've been writing new stub articles just from those in the past couple
of days. It reminds me of how and why I got hooked on writing an
encyclopedia.
Good idea. Lists of redlinks are an important and somewhat neglected
part of the infrastructure. I feel we haven't worked out exactly how to
present them (decentralisation is quite important, but there is an
obvious tension with the idea that newbies can find them quickly).
Really [[Category:Wikipedia missing topics]] should be the master
category. It turns out to be a subcategory of [[Category:Wikipedia
requested articles] ] - which I find to be less than logical. Equally
[[WP:MISSING]] should be the master page in project space. There is
nothing wrong with having Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic
articles there, but that wikiproject has its Procrustean bed tendencies
(equating "encyclopedic articles" with "articles in existing
encyclopedias" isn't what should happen).
Charles