2009/3/25 Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com:
Getting back to the original post.
How's Wikipedia's coverage of history, compared to the average British school textbook?
Almost certainly broader and deeper, but probably harder to understand. Our articles aren't really aimed at primary school children. Textbooks focus on just what school children are expected to study, which makes them far easier to teach from. I don't think Wikipedia will ever replace textbooks, that is Wikibooks job. Wikipedia will be used for school research projects.