On 1/25/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
There are large swaths of technical topics which are not computer-geek technical stuff which are covered extremely poorly, if at all.
Engineering materials, for example - aluminum, steel, composite materials, others. I went through and it seemed like doubled the structural and aerospace materials article count 2-3 months ago, and I haven't even gotten started properly...
Yeah, that's true actually. On a slight sidetrack, I've also started to notice that while we have many articles about individual products in certain categories (cameras and phones, for example), in non-geeky fields such articles are often quickly designated "spam". This may be fair enough, if we think about sales volume, but I'm going to pay closer attention and see if it's actually reasonable.
Structural design concepts that anyone in an industry knows from school and are common professional knowledge, and still have no WP coverage.
In IT as well...our articles on stuff like data warehousing, business intelligence, database design etc are pretty rudimentary and not very well organised. Even someone sitting down with a first year textbook and getting some basic, even coverage would be a great help. As opposed to the very evident biases (often just caused by particular interests of contributors) causing lopsided coverage atm.
Steve