[WikiEN-l] Looking for thoughts on statistics

[geni]

On 29 March 2010 03:55, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Even for the US, about 80% of the members of state legislatures
> historically are not covered. For the current Michigan House of
> Representatives, only 50% of the current members have articles, and
> almost none of the earlier ones.
> this is very low-lying fruit, well within the reach of any beginner.

Attempting to redefine the difficulty in writing any given article
won't help. Without access to the back issues of local newspapers
writing such articles would be rather dificult and even with them
acquiring the level of base knowledge that tends to be required to
write about a subject would not be easy.


> If the other Wikipedias did similarly full coverage of their home
> countries and we translated the articles, there would probably be
> potential for an order of magnitude.

Size of national libiaries and the like says no.



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geni