http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_is_a_mess_wikipedians_say_1_…
Now, we have a lot of work to do, it's obviously encyclopedic and it
would be hard to get really wrong.
What needs to be in place to make it possible to recruit newbies for
the task of referencing things? (Alleviate the citation syntax
problem. Make the results easily checkable by the experienced. Ban the
use of Twinkle or similar semi-botlike mechanisms on the resulting
edits, as nothing repels good-faith new users like instant reversion.
What else?)
- d.