[Wikipedia-l] 80,000

[Karen AKA Kajikit]

Paul Ebermann wrote:
> 
> "Gareth Owen" skribis:
> 
> > The Cunctator <cunctator at kband.com> writes:
> >
> > > How do they clutter the "worthwhile" entries? Wikipedia is not paper.
> >
> > RandomPages
> 
> I just tested this ...
> 
> I twenty times klicked on "Random page",
> and got
> 
> - 3 times these "Village pages"
> - 3 times year-pages (two of them 507)
> - 14 times other articles (but not all of them
>    being "worthwile" articles IMHO).
> 
> Is this a great problem?

In itself, no it's not. I did a random page search myself just now and
here are my results. I didn't happen to get any year pages this time
around, but six out of my twenty clicks took me to a rambot town and the
last four of those were in a row directly after each other. One year
entry, or one town, or one country demographics entry (etc) by itself
isn't a problem, but when you click again and get another one, and again
etc, it might make people think that that's all we have in the
wikipedia. I could see it dissuading people from trying to use the
wikipedia, because they might think that their kind of information
wasn't wanted or needed, or that the wikipedia just doesn't have what
they're looking for when it probably does. 

MY RESULTS

1) Whippet - tiny stub

2) Master station - straightforward definition, drawn from Federal
Standard 1037C 

3) Topological group - lengthy mathematical article

4) Lexington, Missouri - Rambot entry

5) Worcester Cathedral - tiny stub

6) F-14 Tomcat - lengthy article, with written information and a long
list of stats

7) Triboluminescence - stub, basically a definition

8) Antony and Cleopatra - stub on the Shakespeare play

9) Stotts City, Missouri - Rambot entry

10) History of Swaziland - CIA factbook entry, very stubbish

11) Arecales - microstub (family listing)

12) Ripe - disambiguation page, no actual info

13) Der er et yndigt land -  (Danish national anthem) lyrics and English
translation

14) Cow tipping - short article on an urban legend

15) Hub - definition

16) Feyenoord Rotterdam - short article on the Dutch football team

17) Cleveland, Illinois - rambot entry

18) Marion Heights, Pennsylvania - rambot entry

19) Spring Valley, Ohio - rambot entry

20) New Richmond, Wisconsin - rambot AGAIN


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