[WikiEN-l] "Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?"

[geni]

2009/1/3 Phil Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>:
> This should be required reading - it completely upends fundamental
> assumptions about our content, and has huge implications for things
> like deletion. The sense that our inclusion and notability policies
> put us at odds with readers who are not major parts of the community
> has always been there, but this troublingly nails it: the population
> of people who write articles and people who delete them are nearly
> exclusive.
>
> That's a huge issue.
>

We've know this for over a year. The counter is the question of if it
holds true for new articles where most deletion actually takes place.


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geni