[WikiEN-l] The viable competitors to Wikipedia.

[Charles Matthews]

On 08/04/2011 15:57, David Gerard wrote:
> On 8 April 2011 15:17, Charles Matthews<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>  wrote:
>
>> "Notability" has always been a broken and widely-misunderstood aspect of
>> enWP. My impression is that deWP, for example, sets the bar higher, and
>> has fewer "problems": in a word, deletionism can work well enough.
>> Comprehensiveness is of course about total content, while notability is
>> about topics you recognise. "Salience" is the neglected concept, which
>> is relative to topic.
>
> I am told anecdotally that many native speakers of German who also
> speak good English prefer en:wp for its comprehensiveness.
>
> This may be an example of what we think we should be about conflicting
> with what readers actually want and expect.
It's not actually terribly surprising, given that there are probably at 
least four times as many native speakers of English as of German. In the 
areas I work in I often come across cases where deWP has a better 
article on a topic than enWP. These are things you'd expect, anyway. The 
real point is that deWP's model seems clearly viable, if a bit 
different. We'll see, in the longer term. The gap between "content" and 
"featured content" (optimised) still seems huge (FAs cover half a week's 
additions at the current rate, by number of topics). We've got a long 
way with "good enough" content.

Charles=