On 18 April 2010 19:54, Philip Sandifer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2010, at 8:26 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> >> Wikipedia, and its community and bureaucracy, sucks in oh so many >> ways. But it does in fact work and produce something people find >> useful. > > I'm not entirely sure of this. It is accurate to say that Wikipedia is found > useful by people - but I'm not sure the current community and bureaucratic > structures have anything to do with why. I suspect the useful parts are > unevenly distributed towards articles older than five years.
Interesting hypothesis. It is testable, too - we just need a bot to sample a few thousand articles and compare their hits over the last month, say, with their creation dates. I suspect you are wrong, though, since you haven't accounted for current affairs articles and pop culture articles which are very popular, but not for long. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
