[WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

[Charlotte Webb]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Steve Bennett<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Meanwhile, for the autodidacts among us, the 200 core biographies list
> is a pretty interesting place to start reading.

Definitely. I can relate. I mean if I said everything I've ever
remembered for more than a month I learned on my own time, it would be
only a slight exaggeration.

> There are quite a few entries on the list I've never heard of, but
> seem to deserve their place. [[Shaka]], [[Laozi]], [[Thucydides]],
> [[Margaret Sanger]]

Well then, at least nobody tried to sneak Larry into it. :-)

> (questionable...), [[Cai Lun]]... I should make a "book" of these
> articles for the next long train trip...

Steve, I might recommend to you [[The 100]] by Michael H. Hart, which
is a sub-set of this "core biographies" list with few exceptions
(Moses being the highest-ranked).

Incidentally I wrote on this book elsewhere on the internet a few
months ago (warning: BADSITE) though being blissfully unaware that WP
had a similarly populated list:
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=23993&view=findpost&p=171401

—C.W.