"Thomas Dalton" wrote
I would go with: "There's a lack of low hanging fruit at the edge of the orchard. You need to head in a bit deeper to find it, but it is still just as low."
I find that simply working on WP is the education one needs to realise what is missing. "Good stubs" are still, well, good. They tend not to require special skills to write.
Charles
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I would go with: "There's a lack of low hanging fruit at the edge of the orchard. You need to head in a bit deeper to find it, but it is still just as low."
I find that simply working on WP is the education one needs to realise what is missing. "Good stubs" are still, well, good. They tend not to require special skills to write.
Exactly. No special skills are required, you just have a look a little harder than you used to to find something to do. A few years ago you could click "random article", click a red link and write a stub. Now, there aren't anywhere near as many easy red links.
On 8/29/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I would go with: "There's a lack of low hanging fruit at the edge of the orchard. You need to head in a bit deeper to find it, but it is still just as low."
I find that simply working on WP is the education one needs to realise
what is missing. "Good stubs" are still, well, good. They tend not to require special skills to write.
Exactly. No special skills are required, you just have a look a little harder than you used to to find something to do. A few years ago you could click "random article", click a red link and write a stub. Now, there aren't anywhere near as many easy red links.
Partially because some people believe there shouldn't be any red links (especially in featured articles), and if they can't find any material for a stub, remove the link.
On the other hand, some people create a stub based on whatever the article offhandedly says...which means a number of the biographies linked to from an obscure article I wrote are coatrack articles with a disproportionate depiction of the subject. Again, low-hanging fruit that's been overlooked.
Johnleemk
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Thomas Dalton" wrote
I would go with: "There's a lack of low hanging fruit at the edge of the orchard. You need to head in a bit deeper to find it, but it is still just as low."
I find that simply working on WP is the education one needs to realise what is missing. "Good stubs" are still, well, good. They tend not to require special skills to write.
One example I've seen mentioned several times is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge . Because people made stubs for every crossing of the Mississippi River in and below the Twin Cities, we had an article - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge&... - before the bridge collapsed.
On 29/08/2007, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
I find that simply working on WP is the education one needs to realise what is missing. "Good stubs" are still, well, good. They tend not to require special skills to write.
One example I've seen mentioned several times is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge . Because people made stubs for every crossing of the Mississippi River in and below the Twin Cities, we had an article - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge&...
- before the bridge collapsed.
Which has to have helped the speedy expansion of the article after the collapse. And since Wikipedia is quite possibly at its best with current events (this year alone, at least two articles I can think of have received praise in mainstream media for reporting a highly useful synthesis of the facts as they were developing), that has to be a good thing.