David Gerard wrote: > I'd like to work out some way of advocating the "missing article" > lists to potential new contributors. On en:wp: > > http://enwp.org/WP:WANTED > http://enwp.org/WP:MISSING > > I've been writing new stub articles just from those in the past couple > of days. It reminds me of how and why I got hooked on writing an > encyclopedia. > Good idea. Lists of redlinks are an important and somewhat neglected part of the infrastructure. I feel we haven't worked out exactly how to present them (decentralisation is quite important, but there is an obvious tension with the idea that newbies can find them quickly).
Really [[Category:Wikipedia missing topics]] should be the master category. It turns out to be a subcategory of [[Category:Wikipedia requested articles] ] - which I find to be less than logical. Equally [[WP:MISSING]] should be the master page in project space. There is nothing wrong with having Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles there, but that wikiproject has its Procrustean bed tendencies (equating "encyclopedic articles" with "articles in existing encyclopedias" isn't what should happen). Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
