On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Robin McCain <robin(a)slmr.com> wrote:
I find it bizarre that inclusion of information of
local importance is
encouraged in the internationalized local language wikipediae but
discouraged in the U.S. English wikipedia. So events of local interest in a
town in Romania are desirable but the same cannot be said of a similar event
in San Jose, California.
In general I think we should be relaxing notability guidelines so that
we can cover increasingly local knowledge, while improving our
browsing and review tools -- so people can both visually perceive the
spectrum of notability (from hyperlocal to epochally historic) and
more effectively review topics that have coverage in more local and
less globally-reputable sources.
Small wikis don't need to worry about the side effects of having a
large database with limited tools to review it.
S