You're badly misunderstanding what wikipedia is. It's not an encyclopedia and fails short of the definition by design and the first encyclopedia was much more c

You're badly misunderstanding what wikipedia is. It's not an encyclopedia and fails short of the definition by design and the first encyclopedia was much more comprehensive (though was at a time where there was no pokemon to artificially grow this perception). Its accuracy is both terrible and good depending on which article you read and quality is often dubious when you wander outside of english wikipedia. The problems wikipedia faced at the start was the dubious source of funding by a shady founder, the problems wikipedia faces today is the colossal amount of money they don't actually need but ask for and receive anyways and drop conspicuously in private pockets. So not much has changed basically except maybe the core of people in control behind the scenes managed to drive away newcomers and contributors to keep the control and power they have. The good thing is that the licensing issue is mostly fixed and we should be able to fork wikipedia and salvage the data (if they ever fix their data structures and resume offerings usable dumps).