Hi all,
This is a very interesting discussion. I'm going to fork this thread in the
next 2 hours (unless one of you do this in the meantime) for us to continue
the conversation around using search as a signal for improving Wikipedia in
there. It would be best, for current and future readability, to keep the
focus of the current thread on the original topic.
Thanks,
Leila
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 7:51 AM Edward Saperia <edsaperia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We can consider this an opportunity, e.g. popular
media often touches on
diverse cultural and political themes, and international sports tournaments
give people a reason to learn about different countries. If people find our
project this way then so be it, we can just try and make sure those
articles great starting points for further exploration
<https://xkcd.com/214/>.
Ed
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 12:31, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
wrote:
The idea of a popularity-driven encyclopaedia
scares 😱
I agree, although I'd make it a bit more focused: an encyclopedia that is
*only* popularity-driven is indeed scary. It's good to mention this, and
not once, but repeatedly.
However, providing Wikipedia editors with information about what *is* in
demand is useful, as long as the editors clearly know that they have the
choice to write what is *important* and that "important" is not equal to
"popular".
While I haven't ran a proper survey about this, conversations that with
Wikipedia editors from various "big" and "small" languages tell me
that
most of them already understand it, and this is good. Nevertheless,
reminding people that Wikipedia is not supposed to be just about covering
popular topics won't hurt.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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