After fiddling with stuff for a few days, some initial impressions: The sheer amount of rubbish in WP is mind-boggling. I've tried some "Random Article" button pushing and the results where almost invariably junk, copyright violations and then more junk. A delete procedure is needed. Badly!
Another marked phenomenon is that the "big and important" articles suffer from severe "hyperedititis" -- articles about important issues are edited, re-edited, split into sub-articles, which are split yet again, then a special template is added, which further extends the possibilities to some more splits, and so on. Added to the hyperedititis is a second annoying WP disease of hypertemplatitis. I some cases, there are 5, 6 or 7 different templates, which are usually useless. In the article "Adolf Hitler" there are 12 of those. This and that "hyper" does not mean that the article is necessarily well researched. If we take the "Adolf Hitler" article -- the references makes one want to cry. Of the 21 footnotes, most are references to dated books, but also to short reviews, newspaper articles, and so on. It makes one feel you cannot deal with the thing except by deleting the whole thing and starting from scratch. Ori _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
