geni wrote:
We'll know more around the beginning of 2010. In my view something is likely to change in the direction of people valuing lists of "missing articles" more, when it is clearer that drive-by creation is getting drossier by the month (which is what that model implies). Of course I can't quantify that: I know it is still easy to come up with sets of 1000 topics that we don't cover at all well, and the total of redlinks is still large.
Charles
Redlinks in general perhaps. Redlinks in articles a significant number of people actually read less so.
Well, now we come to it: one reason there may be less growth is the the nature of database use (people's queries tend to have less of a "long tail" than our entries). OTOH: I started the [[Oxford Professor of Poetry]] article, and had no idea there would be a media frenzy about it (last time had been Yevtushenko). I also started [[Ruth Padel]] ... when said frenzy arose I did fill in the redlinks as I could, including [[Joseph Trapp]], first ever Oxford Professor of Poetry (a few interesting things there, but for another time).
Charles