Hmm. Well, I haven't run into any problems to speak of. I find the information generally thorough and accurate. I run into occasional grammatical errors, due to material from non-native speakers, which I will correct if I have time. I know there are disputed entries due to political and religious issues, but the worst ones were "locked" last time I heard about it. At any rate I don't generally find myself browsing disputed areas. Also, the annual Wiki fund drive seems to get good support. With 4.3million english language articles, 70,000 editors, and a ranking as the 6th most popuar website on the net, it hardly seems to be declining. Cresting, perhaps?
-Pete On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Arthur Cordell wrote: > Sad. > =============== > > Subject: [ PFIR ] MIT Tech Review: The Decline of Wikipedia > > > MIT Tech Review: The Decline of Wikipedia > > http://j.mp/1a6l6UL (MIT) > > "Yet Wikipedia and its stated ambition to "compile the sum of all human > knowledge" are in trouble. The volunteer workforce that built the > project's flagship, the English-language Wikipedia-and must defend it > against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation-has shrunk by more than a > third since 2007 and is still shrinking. Those participants left seem > incapable of fixing the flaws that keep Wikipedia from becoming a > high-quality encyclopedia by any standard, including the project's > own. Among the significant problems that aren't getting resolved is > the site's skewed coverage: its entries on Pokemon and female porn > stars are comprehensive, but its pages on female novelists or places > in sub-Saharan Africa are sketchy. Authoritative entries remain > elusive. Of the 1,000 articles that the project's own volunteers have > tagged as forming the core of a good encyclopedia, most don't earn > even Wikipedia's own middle-ranking quality scores. The main source > of those problems is not mysterious. The loose collective running the > site today, estimated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing > bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers > who might increase participation in Wikipedia and broaden its > coverage." > > - - - > > --Lauren-- > Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren > Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: > http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info > Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info > Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: > http://lauren.vortex.com > Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein > Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein > Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com > _______________________________________________ > pfir mailing list > http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > Futurework@lists.uwaterloo.ca > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@lists.uwaterloo.ca https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
