On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> We're shrinking because we've already written most of the stuff we > want to include. > This is orthogonal to the main conversation here, but this is not nearly the case. We've picked off a lot of low hanging fruit, approaching all of it. Things which haven't been dealt with include figuring out where a more liberal livable line lies in the inclusionism question, and filling in a lot of semi specialist topics which are currently woefully underrepresented. There are whole fields of engineering and science that we have barely scratched the surface of at the moment. A month-ish ago, I spent a week putting together an article on one explosives engineering topic which was completely missing... leaving us with about 95% of that field still uncovered so far. Aerospace engineering is poorly covered. Automobile engineering is somewhat covered, but not with really good articles. Rocketry needs a lot more. Astrodynamics needs a lot more. Naval architecture and ship design topics are poorly covered now. Three of the last eight highly technical terms I went looking for information on weren't in Wikipedia in any significant way, across a bunch of fields. This is just what's on my mind right now. Every time I've looked at it I've found more gaps. I could spend the rest of my life adding information to Wikipedia, at this rate, if I didn't have to have a day job and didn't want to go sit on a beach. Hopefully we can over time add more new editors / contributors in these fields so I don't have to 8-P -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
