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Web reach should be enough to trigger notability. Any website in the top 100,000 in terms of traffic for a year is important enough to merit Wikipedia attentio
by GavinB 17y ago
Web reach should be enough to trigger notability. Any website in the top 100,000 in terms of traffic for a year is important enough to merit Wikipedia attention.
Notability should be determined by how useful the knowledge is, not whether or not the mainstream press bothers to pay attention.
The level of notability should be set by Wikipedia's ability to reliably incorporate information, not by some arbitrary standard. As the number and expertise of editors increases, the notability standard should decrease.
The goal of wikipedia is the "sum of human knowledge," (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Free_speech) not to "the sum of human knowledge that has been covered in the mainstream press."
- rms 17y agoI had the Alexa rankings for Hacker News in there the last time I edited it, but a Wikipedia editor has deleted that reference in his or her infinite wisdom.
- GavinB 17y agoSadly, I was talking more about the wikipedia I would like to see than about the wikipedia that currently exists. Personally, number of people using something is a lot more meaningful to me than number of journalists writing about it. Of course, as a very occasional anonymous editor, I suppose I don't have much right to complain.