On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:39 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/2/17 Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>: > >> If these all count as low-hanging fruit, they may have been picked, >> but they haven't really ripened yet. Part of the trouble is that truly >> general, overview articles are: (a) difficult to write well; and (b) >> experts tend to prefer to write more limited, specialised articles. >> Sometimes the subsidiary articles need to be written to a good level >> before the general article can be tackled. Sometimes it is the other >> way round. > > I've noticed that featured articles are rarely general topics - they > tend to be specialised articles brought to FA status by one person > interested in that specialist subtopic.
I've looked briefly through the list at WP:FA (briefly because there are 2,419 of them), and some that strike me as particularly general (and nearly all are common terms) are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welding Less general, but still very broad, are ones like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_cuisine I stopped at "Food and drink" as we have quite a lot of featured articles. One that I had in mind as an example is now a former featured article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion Looking through the lists of former featured articles will probably yield similar examples. One thing I did discover is that reading through the list at WP:FA is really quite difficult. It is 29 sections, but each section is a wall of text and it is quite hard to browse. I might try and do a personalised listing at some point, bringing out the areas I'm interested in and slicing up the FA cake in a different way. Such as identifying the more "general" ones and the more "niche" ones, and the "specific" items such as games, films, books, events, and paintings (as opposed to genres, histories and stuff like that), and biographies and suchlike. But with so many articles, it's difficult to do that. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
