[Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

Ziko van Dijk zvandijk at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 20 18:31:06 UTC 2009


I couldn't agree more, Erik. Not paying attention to "milestones" is
the first and best step; Wikipedia:Signpost should start with it.
Ziko

2009/8/20 Erik Zachte <erikzachte at infodisiac.com>:

> I concur wholeheartedly. Focusing on rising article counts gave us a thrill
> for many years, and now it is difficult to kick the bad habit.

> On a small wikipedia (at least most of them) there is simply not enough of a
> community to drive this semi automated article creation process.
>
> I think it would help if we discouraged any bragging on the 4th millionth
> article in the English Wikipedia at all and downplayed any inquiries from
> the media.
>
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