On 1/21/08, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia's main weakness is that, at base, it's a pub conversation. It's a large pub conversation, and is open to contributions from passers-by who know their onions, but it's still basically a bunch of interested people who might -- or might not -- know much about something, having a chat."
I would say, more like a Mensa meeting or something. Read an article about trains, and the contributors aren't "passers-by", they're train nuts who went out of their way to find a forum that actually wants their ridiculous level of knowleddge on the subject.
The really crappy areas are ones where there are no subject areas, and really broad terms.
Steve