I usually say Wikipedia consist of some hundred different encyclopedias
on different topics.
And some of these are excellent and have full covering, like popes,
birds, where wp is better then all other encyclopedia in all aspects
Other subject area are more uneven both in covering and in content for
each article, as this review give an example of for electronic
I am also convinced that one of the most important focuses on our
editorial work is in getting a complete covering in as many subjects as
possible. This is one of the reasons I do believe we need to develop
(semi) automatic generation of articles from official databases (like
the project to have articles on All lakes in x-country I have written
of). Also that Wikidata have a key role in this new focus, enabling us
to have a common repository for these common basic data
Anders
Fred Bauder skrev 2013-05-28 21:18:
I think that is a pretty good analysis of the entire project. It is
directly related to lack of editorial control and the impossibility of
being able to assign writers to problem areas.
Fred
I ran across this paragraph in the preface to O'Reilly's new book
"Encyclopedia of Electronic Components." [1] I'm not sure that I've ever
seen an evaluation of Wikipedia's electronics coverage before, but to me
this sounds like a pretty good description of a lot of our engineering
articles (at least in English)...
"Wikipediaâs coverage of electronics is impressive but inconsistent.
Some
entries are elementary, while others are extremely technical. Some are
shallow, while others are deep. Some are well organized, while others run
off into obscure topics that may have interested one of the contributors
but are of little practical value to most readers. Many topics are
distributed over multiple entries, forcing you to hunt through several
URLs. Overall, Wikipedia tends to be good if you want theory, but
not-so-good if you want hands-on practicality."
-- phoebe
1. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026105.do
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