[WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions on nl:wp

[Peter Ansell]

On 22/11/2007, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Chad wrote:
> > Granted, we're not completed in some areas that we should be, but there
> > is a very large signal-to-noise ratio in terms of articles. For every core
> > article there are 10 frivolous ones.
>
> What's "frivolous" is in the eye of the beholder. Take a look at our top
> 100 most heavily trafficked pages:
> <http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwiki&ns=articles&limit=100&month=11%2F2007&mode=view>
> The non-pop-culture articles are the exception rather than the rule.
> Most of the list consists of articles about works of fiction, computer
> games, and entertainers. And also a bunch of articles about sex, of
> course, this being the internet. People _want_ to read about that stuff,
> they aren't winding up at those articles accidentally.
>
> Wikipedia has a huge perceived signal-to-noise ratio because everybody
> has different ideas about what's "signal" and what's "noise." If
> everyone pruned out what they weren't interested in there'd be nothing
> at all left. Better to just ignore it.

But its not notable if I am not interested in it! (Why am I the one
who always falls back of sarcastic, yet truthful statements to make
their point).

Statement before about there not being 2 million perceived notable
topics brought it on of course...

Peter