[Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

[John at Darkstar]

> My argument is that there is a lack of research on Wikipedia, Wikipedia as a
> whole would benefit from research and indeed where the English Wikipedia's
> growth is slowing down, there is plenty of room for growth elsewhere of
> standard encyclopaedic information in the other projects. This in turn will
> bring up many subjects that en.wp does not cover. The existence of articles
> on subjects not covered in en.wp are indicative of a bias and once en.wp
> starts to cover these subjects it will improve its neutral point of view..
> Consequently ALL our Wikipedias including en.wp will benefit from research
> on the "other" Wikipedias.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
> _

I would guess that the most important reason why english wikipedia is
slowing down is because of the other language projects gets the
attention of the editors. perhaps it would be possible to get some
numbers on the total influx of content and how it is distributed among
the projects?

John