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The second point is obviously true, and always will be. Stated more generally: "There are limitless things we would like to do, and limited time and resources
by sushisource 10y ago
The second point is obviously true, and always will be. Stated more generally:
"There are limitless things we would like to do, and limited time and resources with which to do them"
The definition of a featured article is quite rigorous, and there's zero expectation that all wikipedia articles will hit that bar.
- halfak_ 10y agoWell, we spend about 12 million labor hours per year editing Wikipedia[1]. We've put in like 150 million by now. Right now, we have 5,893 out of 5,095,532 articles in the Featured class. We have another 29,152 that are almost featured[2]. Based on some bold assumptions I just made[3], we could probably finish off Wikipedia by 2262. 1. Geiger, R. S., & Halfaker, A. (2013, February). Using edit sessions to measure participation in wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 861-870). ACM. Chicago 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team#Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editoria... 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/When_will_wikipedia_be_done https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/When_will_wik...