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> Which I honestly find pretty reasonable. If you were to make a Wikipedia article for every college professor, we'd have a pretty bloated Wikipedia Why would
by berkes 4y ago
> Which I honestly find pretty reasonable. If you were to make a Wikipedia article for every college professor, we'd have a pretty bloated Wikipedia
Why would that be a problem? What is such a Long Tail costing us? It's not like there is scarcity like a libraries' bookshelves or pages in a journal.
And what would be the line of bloatedness? Maybe it already is way too bloated, and a wikipedia 10% the current size is better?
- vorpalhex 4y agoNames especially tend to cluster which makes signal harder to find in noise. Wikipedia is meant to be searchable.
- robswc 4y ago>Why would that be a problem? I imagine it would be harder to navigate, especially in a few decades, if every combination of First name, Last name had a couple entries. There's already 7 for my name. Sure, you could say its not that much harder to navigate... but you can't say it makes things easier or "better." I would honestly defer to Wiki contributors and maintainers on this, as I'm sure they have better reasons... but my intuition just tells me that letting Wikipedia be a dumping ground for any person that published a paper would just not end well. >Maybe it already is way too bloated, and a wikipedia 10% the current size is better? Perhaps. I think they should do a lot more "merging" of topics.
- ElCheapo 4y agoWhy not have 8 billion entries for each and every one of us? If you remove any popularity boundary then this is the only logical conclusion