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Tue Mar 15 17:42:23 UTC 2011

frustration) we have an idea. It would be nice to have some more statistical
data.

(and apologies if these questions are just another prove of the old saying
that one fool can ask more questions than a thousand wise men can answer)

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:14 AM, teun spaans <teun.spaans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Quote:Many volunteers don't have a lot to write.
> > This sounds like an opinion, not like a fact. Even on English wikipedia,
> we
> > still have about two hundred thousand plant species to describe, and
> > millions of animal species. And then I'm not talking about fungi and
> other
> > kingdoms
>
>
> That is a good point, Teun, and work between Wikispecies and Wikipedia has
> done more to fill taxonomy than would anywhere near exist.  However,
> participation and growth is not purely content creation and expansion.  The
> content is most important, but it is impossible to do so forever on the
> English Wikipedia in isolation.  If we want to focus on how to "get a
> Wikipedian", it is my firm belief that we cannot.  The focus, in my meager
> opinion, is not on instructions, wizards, or templates.  The solution is
> what we want to acheive: knowledge.  This comes from helping new users and
> appreciating that our content is ridiculously misunderstood for the fifth
> most popular website in the world.
>
>
> --
> ~Keegan
>
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>