[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia v. Britannica

[sgilbert at nbnet.nb.ca]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

> I
> susppect that our coverage contains strange and conspicuous 'holes' if
> we went through it via a "top down" approach, i.e. take lists of major
> topics and see if we've covered them.

Something I'm working on is a survey of the English Wikipedia's 
"portal pages": the ones listed on the front page as the main 
category scheme. Anyone can help if they like: 
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stephen_Gilbert/Portal_page_sur
vey

Stephen G.