[WikiEN-l] a valid criticism

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Fastfission wrote:

>But if we are truly worried about some articles being "bad
>representatives", it might be nice to really explicitly prioritize
>some of them. We do have that list of "100 articles which should be in
>every encyclopedia" or something like that for all of the new-language
>Wikis to consider as a starting point -- maybe we need to re-apply
>that to EN and really get out there to encourage people to find things
>on that list (or another list of some sort) which are important to get
>into a "featured" state *not* because the article is necessarily
>horribly flawed in some way, but because the *topic* of the article is
>of a high-enough priority to the world-at-large that if we goof on it,
>it'll look like a bad thing. It would also be a good way to march
>towards 1.0 if people are still interested in that.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have

I created the above page for this specific purpose - en: has all these
articles (or something like them), but very few are up to featured
quality.

One problem I see with the FA process is that a lot of the articles
are incredibly esoteric. If you're a specialist in a field, you're
highly motivated to write a REALLY GOOD article about something you
know well. There seems to be less motivation to get the *really
general* articles up to featured status. God help the person who tries
to get [[Earth]] past the present FAC process and keep it under 200KB.


- d.

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