On 5/24/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/24/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On 5/23/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
How many articles _should_ Wikipedia have?
Why don't we start covering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encyclopedia_topics then list all broken links, write these articles, rinse (merging, deleting and redirecting), repeat.
Once there are no broken links anymore (typos become redirects) we will know the exact number :-)
In light of the "wikipedia effect" thread elsewhere (where it was complained that people never dip into the vast reservoir that are libraries etc. because we are so easily accessible) and the vastly illuminating speech by Charlie Stross (hugs to his wife for all the gutenbergish stuff she does) linked to on these same mailing lists; and other factors...
May I announce as my personal challenge...
Please make my day, and create 2 billion _article_requests_ and/or "articles for creation" before 2010.
I know I am being self-serving in making this request/challenge, but think about it. Argue about whether we really do want an article, not about whether we want to delete it... There has to be an upside to that equation...
That's around 500,000 articles per active editor in 30 months, or around 560 per day per person. Something like 46 per available waking hour, or one every 80 seconds.
Even looking forwards to exponential contributor curves, that's a bit much.