Gwern Branwen wrote
This is not a novel technique: far from it. I'm not aware of it having a
name, a WikiProject, any stature on the site.
How about [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles]]?
Well, OK. There are numerous examples of what I meant. I keep on finding lists in user space. But what I'm not talking about is just having one master list. I'm talking about manageable topic lists created by all those interested in this kind of thing. _There is no need to create a central listing_.
Charles
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On 10/17/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Well, OK. There are numerous examples of what I meant. I keep on finding lists in user space. But what I'm not talking about is just having one master list. I'm talking about manageable topic lists created by all those interested in this kind of thing. _There is no need to create a central listing_.
Excepting that a central listing makes it MUCH easier for those who say "I feel like writing an article" to find something to write it about; or for those who say "I want to do something to help today, but I'm not sure what" to find a project they can contribute to. Small lists spread throughout project space or user space won't appreciably help the speed at which the articles about these topics are actually written.
--Darkwind
On 17/10/2007, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Gwern Branwen wrote
This is not a novel technique: far from it. I'm not aware of it having a
name, a WikiProject, any stature on the site.
How about [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles]]?
Well, OK. There are numerous examples of what I meant. I keep on finding lists in user space. But what I'm not talking about is just having one master list. I'm talking about manageable topic lists created by all those interested in this kind of thing. _There is no need to create a central listing_.
MEA is basically an attempt not so much to create a central listing as to provide a place where you can try and come up with lists we don't have yet or can be sure of finding one to work on ;-)
A couple of years back, it must have been, I remember someone talking about having a category of "redlink articles"; pages of people's own articles-to-get-around-to worklists. I don't know if it's still there, but this might be just what you want.
(If you manage to find one, I'll write you a redlink list to go in it)