The Cunctator wrote:
Axel Boldt wrote:
>Imran Ghory wrote:
>>How do you measure the importance of someone ?
>Like I just did: a person is unimportant if his or
her biography
>is interesting/useful to almost no one.
What's your quantifiable metrics of
"interesting", "useful", and "almost
no one"?
Not that we could ever measure this in practice with any precision,
but for a definition that we could officially attempt to estimate:
Ask each person to rank, on a percentage scale,
to what degree they find the biography interesting and useful.
Average these, and you have a percentage measure of importance.
I'd say that we should try to stick to important people now,
gradually adding the less important as we grow to insane size;
this is what I think that we should do in *every* field.
We cover the basics first; we eventually cover everything.
-- Toby