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I think the reasons for the decay were already widely discussed everywhere: 1. there is a great amount of rules and guidelines which worsen the learning curve 2
by gritzko 17y ago
I think the reasons for the decay were already widely discussed everywhere:
1. there is a great amount of rules and guidelines which worsen the learning curve
2. quite often, articles are owned by "shepherds", who tend to rollback outsider contributions (because they have their own perfect vision in their heads); this contributes to despair of occasional contributors
3. because the topmost reasons to be a winner in a editor dispute are (a) persistence and (b) bone-headness
- bkovitz 17y agoThese problems get a lot of attention because people tend to whine loudly about them. But the vast majority of articles are not affected by them. Except possibly the learning curve. I think the fact that Wikipedia is just a little bit difficult to edit has helped it enormously. That filtered out the people who post the sort of junk you see on YouTube, digg, reddit, etc.