It would be good to extend the research of War of 1812 to non-English Wikipedias.
I've had a quick look and it is surprising how many of the articles 'pretty good', but none are very good. I think that there is a depth level at which non-English writers say 'I could easily add more, but the [non-English] article is good enough; if you want more detail you'll almost certainly know English language and should go read the English article. My time is better spent expanding another [non-English] article that isnt yet good enough.'
John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Oct 29, 2012 3:28 AM, "Steven Walling" swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Richard Jensen rjensen@uic.edu wrote:
Look at it demographically: apart from teenage boys coming of age, the population of computer-literate people who are ignorant of Wikipedia is very small indeed in 2012. That was not true in 2005 when lots of editors joined up and did a lot of work on important articles.
You seem to be disregarding the entirety of the developing world and non-English speakers in that statement.
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