geni wrote: >> We'll know more around the beginning of 2010. In my view something is >> likely to change in the direction of people valuing lists of "missing >> articles" more, when it is clearer that drive-by creation is getting >> drossier by the month (which is what that model implies). Of course I >> can't quantify that: I know it is still easy to come up with sets of >> 1000 topics that we don't cover at all well, and the total of redlinks >> is still large. >> >> Charles >> > > Redlinks in general perhaps. Redlinks in articles a significant number > of people actually read less so. > Well, now we come to it: one reason there may be less growth is the the nature of database use (people's queries tend to have less of a "long tail" than our entries). OTOH: I started the [[Oxford Professor of Poetry]] article, and had no idea there would be a media frenzy about it (last time had been Yevtushenko). I also started [[Ruth Padel]] ... when said frenzy arose I did fill in the redlinks as I could, including [[Joseph Trapp]], first ever Oxford Professor of Poetry (a few interesting things there, but for another time).
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