[WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

[Charles Matthews]

On 14/02/2011 22:31, WereSpielChequers wrote:

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> If something like WYSIWYG
> editing were to bring in a new wave of editors then the model would
> break and it would be possible to think in terms of how many potential
> articles qualify.
I think there is a point here. There are certainly a number of valid 
topics without articles in enWP (a million is a good enough figure), but 
the question is how many people will (a) think they should be written, 
and then (b) do something about it. The demographics of "new editors" 
have something to do with (a). We certainly need new editors upgrading 
our older articles where that has not been done, also (which is on-topic 
for the thread).

Much of this discussion seems to work still with a rather primitive 
model of how editors assign themselves to tasks. Among tasks is seeing 
what the encyclopedia needs by direct inspection of existing content.

Charles