I'm sure there are vast amounts of topics local to India that are poorly
covered, and pointing out that X, Y and Z still have holes is the standard
response to any statement about "low-hanging fruit." But it's standard
because it's easy, not because it meaningfully responds to the original
point - which is that the English Wikipedia's pool of able and interested
contributors is shrinking quite independently of any environmental
problems.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:45 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4 January 2013 15:29, Nathan
<nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Most topics that are popular or
significant to large groups of English-writing people are already well
covered, narrowing the opportunities for those folks (who, let's recall,
generally don't have advanced expertise of the type amenable to Wikipedia
articles) to contribute.
So I hear this may not be at all the case, and that editors writing
about Indian topics complain of excessive trouble getting past US
editors' notability detectors. This is of course anecdote not numbers,
but I would suggest not ignoring it.
- d.
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