However, as a general guideline, it is not so much incorrect to state that all important things in Wikipedia have been already written. Indeed, if someone looks for information in Wikipedia - or, more precisely, uses search engines and gets Wikipedia as the first
hit
— they are likely to find what they need with more than 99% chance.
Yaroslav, Which world are you talking about? North America and Europe?
When it comes to Asia (which I'm part of) and Africa, possibly Latin America too, we haven't even written down 1% of the diversity of these places. Leave aside getting it up onto the Wikipedia!
Of course, I agree with the suggestion for new approaches (if I read you right). This is particularly true in a part of the world where much of the discussion is still in the oral domain, is often not in print; when it's in print, it is not digitised. Even when digitised, chances are that it's in a non-English language, which is very hard to find very search engines. (No wonder that some of the prominent people from our regions are continually getting dismissed as non-notable, which I see as another form of 'systemic bias').
Give it a thought, please.
Frederick Noronha Goa
On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 03:05, Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com wrote:
I have written a long text today (posted in my FB) which the readers of this mailing list might find interesting. I copy it below. I understand that it is very easy to critisize me for side issues, but if you want to comment/reply I would appreciate if you address the main issue. The target audience I was thinking about was general (not necessarily Wikimedia-oriented), and for the readers from this mailing list the first several paragraphs can sound trivial (or even trivial and wrong). I apologize in advance.