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Ettrig is a Swedish word which translates into either of hot-tempered, fiery, irascible, peppery, vitriolic, violent or furious, depending on context.

The value of edits and articles

  • Length of edit
  • Addition or removal
  • Page views for article
  • Quality of article
  • Number of interwiki links (indirect viewers via translation)
  • Length of article (diminishing returns, there is a tendency to add the most important facts first)
  • Position in article (many probably read only in beginning (the lead is important)
  • Clicks (a click on a link in an article shows some engagement, we could measure that by rigging the links to feed back to Wikipedia)

All of the above should be used to feed back to editors what the real value of their efforts is.

Valiews

The value of views.

The value of Wikipedia is generated when people download and look at the articles. One such download does not detract from the value of another one. Thus the value of downloads is additive, and because of this the value of an article is at least proportional to the number of page views it generates.

The value of the download is greater the more interesting the article is to the consumer. At the same time, each download is a vote, showing that this consumer considers this subject of interest. So the more downloaded articles can safely be assumed to be more interesting and more valuable per download. This means that the value of an article is more than proportional to the page views. And the range of pageviews is in itself enormous, from a few hundred in a month, to several millions.

Another indicator of importance of a subject is the ocurrence of interwiki links. Each such link shows that someone took the time write an article about it and someone made that link. This vote costs much more than a page view.

Because of this state of affairs it is extremely valuable if the good writers can be stimulated to choose subjects that the readers consider valuable. Many featured articles are read a few hundred times in a month. There is a large number of articles that are read a few hundred thousand times per month. The difference in value is more than a factor of one thousand. Wikipedia should strive to use what incentives it has to guide the editors towards the more valuable subjects. The system that evaluates and celebrates the highest quality articles has no such tendency at all. Most likely it has the opposite tendency. Defenders of the existing system and its criticisers agree that it is more difficult to achieve the highest quality for a valuable article.

I suggest that we at least set a limit for how invaluable a subject can be and still have a celebrated featured article. If we multiply the number of page views for an article over a year with the number of interwiki links in it, we get a value that rises with the value of the subject. We can sort the articles according to this value. I think that if an article shall be celebrated as featured, it should at least be about one of the 200 000 most valuable subjects. With this article sorting, we can generate a list of applicable articles. We don't even need the list. We can set the limit by a value for the product of page views and interwiki links. If an article has a product that is below that value, then it cannot be a featured article, because it cannot have a value that is worth celebrating.

The primary way to gather other peoples esteem in the Wikipedia community is to write many featured articles. The process to identify featured articles embodies a complete disregard for impact. How come that impact, which is considered so important for recognition in the scientific world, is seen as completely irrelevant in Wikipedia?

Search for information

Hey guys try this search engine: http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=little+tunny&t=all&drill=yes&sort=0&p=180 , it generated an impressive number of legit sites for the little tunny.--JimmyButler (talk) 04:39, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Good ref on species.[1]

NC AP Biology edits

Forgotten FA's

High value articles in Category:Featured articles that have not appeared on the main page

Wikipedia article traffic statistics

Views (K) Links Product Title'
511 82 41902 Brad Pitt
373 106 39538 Elvis Presley
448 84 37632 Angelina Jolie
359 86 30874 Madonna (entertainer)
229 119 27251 Olympic Games
263 95 24985 Richard Nixon
267 86 22962 FC Barcelona
238 76 18088 Liverpool F.C.
272 60 16320 David Bowie
380 38 14440 Guy Fawkes
318 42 13356 The Notorious B.I.G.
365 31 11315 2012 phenomenon
216 40 8640 Jenna Jameson
267 32 8544 CM Punk
169 50 8450 Gwen Stefani
122 54 6588 Manhattan Project
142 41 5822 Tool (band)
75 68 5100 Titan (moon)
133 37 4921 Tourette syndrome
117 42 4914 Roger Waters
121 39 4719 Final Fantasy
184 25 4600 Firefly (TV series)
69 65 4485 General relativity
109 38 4142 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
64 56 3584 Aston Villa F.C.
43 79 3397 Rutherford B. Hayes
64 52 3328 John, King of England
39 80 3120 Chester A. Arthur
84 37 3108 Pixies
70 44 3080 Bart Simpson
155 19 2945 Guy Fawkes Night
41 70 2870 Kuiper belt
89 29 2581 Maggie Gyllenhaal
72 35 2520 Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
54 46 2484 Windsor Castle
91 26 2366 Final Fantasy XIII
71 33 2343 Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)
43 53 2279 George II of Great Britain
62 35 2170 The Kinks
35 60 2100 Common Raven
68 30 2040 The Mummy (1999 film)
55 36 1980 Ernest Shackleton
56 34 1904 Audioslave
40 46 1840 Scotland national football team
66 26 1716 Amazing Grace
60 27 1620 Nick Drake
62 25 1550 Mulholland Drive (film)
52 29 1508 Messiah (Handel)
19 79 1501 Common Blackbird
32 45 1440 Richard II of England
35 40 1400 Columbia River
29 48 1392 Mauna Kea
32 42 1344 The Simpsons Movie
69 19 1311 Australian Cattle Dog
42 30 1260 Kid A
24 51 1224 Greater Manchester
20 59 1180 Georges Bizet
39 29 1131 In Rainbows
46 24 1104 Omaha Beach
45 24 1080 Halo 3
24 44 1056 Anfield
79 13 1027 Hanged, drawn and quartered
38 27 1026 By the Way
35 29 1015 Bill Russell
32 29 928 Final Fantasy VIII
32 29 928 Final Fantasy VIII
38 24 912 Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)
38 24 912 Zodiac (film)
32 28 896 John A. Macdonald
29 30 870 The Final Cut (album)
47 17 799 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
21 36 756 Battle of Moscow
32 23 736 Kingdom Hearts II
52 14 728 Ico
40 18 720 Connie Talbot
34 21 714 Halo 2
35 20 700 Steve Bruce
25 28 700 Covent Garden
29 24 696 Nancy Cartwright
33 21 693 Resident Evil 2
25 27 675 Age of Mythology
23 28 644 Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
29 22 638 George B. McClellan
49 13 637 Slow loris
25 25 625 Turkey Vulture
26 24 624 Final Fantasy IX
25 24 600 S.H.E
26 23 598 Final Fantasy XI
22 27 594 Planets beyond Neptune
45 13 585 Limbo (video_game)
64 9 576 Donner Party
36 16 576 Animaniacs
19 30 570 Loggerhead sea turtle
46 12 552 Rumours
23 24 552 Star Trek: First Contact
60 9 540 Only Fools and Horses
25 21 525 Mumia Abu-Jamal
40 13 520 Austin Nichols
32 16 512 Carnivàle
39 13 507 Nancy Drew
19 26 494 Stephen Crane
27 18 486 Dreadnought
44 11 484 Master Chief (Halo)
22 22 484 Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
22 21 462 American Airlines Flight 77
23 20 460 School Rumble
35 13 455 Battle of Vimy Ridge
30 15 450 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
24 18 432 Appaloosa
31 13 403 Under the Bridge
21 19 399 Sideshow Bob
28 14 392 Surrender of Japan
20 19 380 Barton Fink
20 19 380 Halo Wars
21 17 357 Australian Defense Force
22 14 308 Jarome Iginla
22 13 286 Loveless (album)
23 12 276 Supernatural (season 1)
20 13 260 Roberto Luongo
20 12 240 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
21 11 231 Disintegration (The Cure album)
21 11 231 Sebastian Shaw (actor)
21 11 231 Texas Tech University
22 9 198 Supernatural (season 2)
30 6 180 Superman in film
37 2 74 Myles Standish
20 3 60 Morgan dollar
32 1 32 The Apprentice (UK TV series)
26 0,1 2,6 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Search for poor language

Klik bilou! Tejk a walk on the dark syde ov Wikipedia.

Mispelings

Commonly misspelled words abandonement accessable adaptaion appearring avaliable carear comitted commited exeption inconsistant tution proceeded succeded

Waste of space

Microevolution for Good Topic

I had the view that Evolution ought to be developed into a good topic. There were already several Featured Articles in the subject area. But the evolution of this subject is in the direction of degradation. Introduction to Evolution was featured but is now neither featured nor good. Natural selection was good, but isn'nt any longer. Also, it is very difficult to constrain the topic to a reasonable number of articles.

My new less ambitious goal is that Microevolution becomes a good topic. My view is that it includes the articles:

Good Articles

Wikipedia:Good_articles

Improve History of botany

  • Change in number of recognized species: 10K => 300K
  • More on how evolution changed thinking on systematics
  • How molecular systematics changed views of phylogeny
  • Conflict between traditional systematics and evolution based
  • Changes in views on what should and shouldn't be included botany: Algae, diverse protista, green algae, fungi, cyanobacteria.

<references>

  1. ^ de Queiroz K (2005). "Ernst Mayr and the modern concept of species". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102 (Suppl 1): 6600–7. doi:10.1073/pnas.0502030102. PMC 1131873. PMID 15851674. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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