On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:06 AM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 March 2010 20:42, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just as an example, I was taking part in the Military History World >> War I contest recently, and there were at least 43 new articles >> created (or expanded) for DYK. I'm currently trying to work out how >> many articles were actually created (as opposed to expanded). > > It is to be expected that experienced wikipedians can find things to > write about. However our new article creation has historically been > for the most part driven by new users (and a handful of experienced > users who managed to create very large numbers of articles) who may > more legitimately be running out of things they can write articles on > that won't get deleted on sight.
The presumption is that the initial article creation by "the masses" in the early year of the project is a larger number than the "filling in the gaps" by experienced Wikipedians. My hypothesis (OK, speculation) is that filling in the gaps will create a *larger* number of articles (over a longer period of time) than the initial burst of article creation. Think of it as the initial article creation staking out a territory. And then slowly the gaps get filled in. Who is to say that the gaps are not larger than the solid parts of the structure currently being filled in? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
