[Wikipedia-l] Gaps in 1.0

[Fred Bauder]

on 9/1/03 12:12 PM, Magnus Manske at magnus.manske at web.de wrote:

> As we are slowly wading through the usual swamp that is consensus ;-)
> towards Mordor, eh, wikipedia release 1.0, I was wondering: Is there any
> (more or less) organized effort
> * to find the gape wikipedia has, compared to *other* encyclopediae, and
> * to fill them
> Is there a (machine-readable?) list of all entries in Britannica,
> Encarta, or any other major encyclopedia?
> 
> I remember putting lots of possible encyclopedia topics on the 'pedia,
> but wer'de probably past that stage anyway (had a little more than
> 100.000 entries, IIRC).
> 
> Magnus

There are a number of indispensible but mundane topics which because they
are not that interesting to research remain undone, or incompletely done.

Fred