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I can pick a couple of mathematics books off my shelf, where less than 5% of their content is on wikipedia -- wikipedia is good for topics which many people und
by CJefferson 10y ago
I can pick a couple of mathematics books off my shelf, where less than 5% of their content is on wikipedia -- wikipedia is good for topics which many people understand, but in my experience gets very bad for more difficult topics. This partly makes sense, they are difficult to write about, and difficult to read without being an expert so is wikipedia even the right place?
- dTal 10y agoIn my perfect fantasy world Wikipedia articles would be so well-written that as you delved further into a niche field, they seamlessly segue into textbook chapters.
- balabaster 10y agoThe problem with this is the way that Wikipedia is moderated. You get moderators who take it upon themselves to be God of a section and don't let anything through that doesn't meet with their views. There are many anecdotes scattered around the internet of experts with first hand knowledge of a topic and they can't get their expertise included because some moderator or group of moderators think they know better and censor the information from ever seeing the light of day.