From: Alex Rosen
Nobody is discounting the fact that trivia is popular. The question
is,
does it detract from the perception of an encyclopedia as a serious source of information? Does it threaten to move Wikipedia part of the way down the path to being Everything2?
Nope. Wikipedia's strength is its comprehensiveness, and its tendency to flesh out, over time, topics that begin with a few facts or ephemera.
Its strength is not its careful editorial judgment, nor will it ever be.
Everything2 and Wikipedia are products of their very different underlying technology (and mission). Wikipedia simply cannot tend very far toward E2 because of the technological differences between the two.
(Not to mention that 99% of all trivial subjects are not at all interesting to the vast majority of people, like information about one particular elementary school.)
Frankly, 99% of all subjects are not at all interesting to the vast majority of people. That isn't a reasonable guideline for Wikipedia.