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My complaint about mathematics (and similar) articles is that they seem to be written for technical correctness, but not for instructional purposes. So people
by percept 10y ago
My complaint about mathematics (and similar) articles is that they seem to be written for technical correctness, but not for instructional purposes.
So people who already understand the concepts can nod and agree "I find nothing (further) wrong with that," while learners definitely fall down a rabbit hole of successive links. At times it seems more like lawyering than teaching.
I've considered the argument that Wikipedia isn't meant for that purpose, that it's simply a repository for formulas and such, but I don't believe that agrees with any idea of human advancement and learning, and the site's own mission statement reads "to collect and develop educational content."
- monknomo 10y agoI for one, would find a lot of value in a mathematics encyclopedia slanted towards learning instead of mere technical correctness. Wikipedia's physics articles suffer from the same problem.
- agumonkey 10y agoRecently started to go to the library, any book, old, thin, large, is better than wikipedia for this.