2009/2/16 George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com:
We've picked off a lot of low hanging fruit, approaching all of it. Things
We've picked up all the fruit that's actually on the ground with neon signs pointing to it. There's lots of low hanging fruit, e.g.:
A month-ish ago, I spent a week putting together an article on one explosives engineering topic which was completely missing... leaving us with about 95% of that field still uncovered so far. Aerospace engineering is poorly covered. Automobile engineering is somewhat covered, but not with really good articles. Rocketry needs a lot more. Astrodynamics needs a lot more. Naval architecture and ship design topics are poorly covered now. Three of the last eight highly technical terms I went looking for information on weren't in Wikipedia in any significant way, across a bunch of fields.
Yep :-)
This is just what's on my mind right now. Every time I've looked at it I've found more gaps.
Here's to red links, the signposts to future growth!
I could spend the rest of my life adding information to Wikipedia, at this rate, if I didn't have to have a day job and didn't want to go sit on a beach. Hopefully we can over time add more new editors / contributors in these fields so I don't have to 8-P
Careful, you might get a life with that sort of attitude!
- d.