[WikiEN-l] The Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia Community

[Andrew Gray]

On 13/10/2007, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is lacking, IMO, are good articles on a lot of general but
> non-contentious topics.  It's a lot easier to write an article on a
> very specialised topic than a general one.  The specialized topic is
> likely to be well-bounded and of obvious and simple scope.  Sources
> for such articles are generally easier to find (because they are so
> specific, they're easy to search for) and not contentious.  It's a lot
> harder to find authoritative sources for general information,
> ironically, even though it's easy to find non-authoritative ones.

Indeed. I cannot even begin to figure out how I would have a shot at
writing [[Law]]. Or [[colour]] (spelling disputes aside, it's
noncontentious!). Or [[water]].

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk