[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[geni]

2009/7/26 Henning Schlottmann <h.schlottmann at gmx.net>:
> geni wrote:
>
>> English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can
>> still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just
>> different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any
>> reasonable inclusion standards. De does not have an article.
>> [[Ordnance Survey]] is clearly notable. No article on De.
>
> Ordnance Survey would be a great addition to de-WP. I might write it
> myself *g*. But do you expect kids to write on those - for them -
> obscure topics? And if there are kids with knowledge and understanding
> on these or other topics, they will be fascinated by Wikipedia and find
> the project on their own. We don't need to recruit these prodigy childs.

Does Germany not have libraries?

It's true that your average 15 year old is not going be able to write
high end maths and physics articles but your average 18-22 university
student may well be able to. Even if they can't such articles are a
pretty small percentage of the articles DE doesn't have.

> Recruiting efforts should be done where contributions to Wikipedia are
> not coming naturally. One of those fields are retired professionals.

Recruiting efforts should be done where they have a reasonable chance
of success.

-- 
geni