On 1/24/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/25/07, Jeff Raymond jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com wrote:
I will say, though, feedback has gotten to be the most frustrating experience I have. My tendency of late has been to edit articles that few are interested in. It took a really contentious FAC to get feedback on one FA I eventually finished up, and only because the three people who were so great to me during that process were great to me this time that another article I'm working on for FA has gotten any outside feedback. I doubt it's just me, but if your areas of interest aren't in the mainstream, it's a constant struggle to even find someone to check your grammar, let alone improve something.
Yeah, I tend to be in obscure places too. Mostly because I start articles when I see redlinks, so by definition if no one has created an article in the 5+ years that Wikipedia has been going, it's going to be fairly obscure.
There are large swaths of technical topics which are not computer-geek technical stuff which are covered extremely poorly, if at all.
Engineering materials, for example - aluminum, steel, composite materials, others. I went through and it seemed like doubled the structural and aerospace materials article count 2-3 months ago, and I haven't even gotten started properly...
Structural design concepts that anyone in an industry knows from school and are common professional knowledge, and still have no WP coverage.
This is just off the top of my head. I've got a to-do list somewhere else.