Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-08-17/News and notes

Nepal
what is happening in nepal ? why political leaders of nepal is playing with nepalese people ?

it is one of the small country but among the most beautiful country of the world. it can do better with its natural resources and its potentiallity. but the corrupted leaders made the situation worse and worse.

next time we should do some miracles to down these self centered corrupted so called 'netaas"
 * Sadly, I think this is beyond the capabilities of the Signpost writers to figure out. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:24, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

PARC research
It is amusing to observe the amount of naivety coming from various "wikipedia scholars". Not mentioning past "breakthroughs" and "unresolved mysteries" of wikipedia", the slowdown of growth and high revert rate are easily explained by any serious wikipedia insider. The factors are:
 * all "low-hanging fruits" are gone
 * wikipedia policies, lax and indetermined in the beginning, had reasonably matured. Most notably the basic concepts of notability and verifiability set a much higher "entry barrier"
 * New tools like AWB and IRC feeds have made patrolling newpages and reverting garbage on the spot much easier.

If these guys, instead of playing wise asses and statistic gurus, consulted some seasoned wikipedians, they could have asked correct questions, drawn relevant data from appropriate corners, and reached meaningful conclusions. Everybody knows quite a few jokes about unreliability of statistics when it is based on false or poor presuppositions, starting with "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" up to How to Lie with Statistics. Laudak (talk) 17:25, 20 August 2009 (UTC)