From: Stan Shebs <shebs(a)apple.com>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:12:41 -0800
To: Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com>om>, wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Africa info (was Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Day 4 Fund
Drive Report (updated))
Andre Engels wrote:
Another issue that we found at least on the Dutch Wikipedia, is that
Africa is rather underrepresented in the encyclopedia. Getting more
articles on African subjects would benefit both Wikipedia as a whole
and a specific project to get information to Africa.
A couple things I've discovered is that in African topics one has
to go to those quaint old places called libraries (forget finding
anything online), and one can get to the edge of current research
very quickly. For English, there is the "Historical Dictionary"
series which is very useful, but in their bibliographies you'll
see comments like "only book on the subject".
The positive way to look at it is that it's an opportunity to
make WP the must-use reference, with the only online info on a
topic, while there are a thousand D-Day websites to "compete" with.
Stan
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