[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia dying?

[David Gerard]

2009/11/5 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:

> Rumours much exaggerated. What it says in the penultimate para is false:
> "It needs a major upgrade". WP actually needs numerous minor upgrades.
> The trouble is that Lih's approach is rather from the fluffy end,
> anyway. Anyone who engages with the more scholarly end would say: "I can
> see that a huge amount of work still needs to go into improving the
> content; but on the other hand, as a first draft and technical approach
> to an Internet encyclopedia, this site has much more going for it than
> the more acrid debates would indicate".


The history of the success of Wikipedia: [[Worse is better]].


- d.