On 5/19/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps why, much to my surprise, the computer science areas of Wikipedia are particularly poor. I would have thought they would be the strongest areas, but articles on anything which can't be demonstrated with a snippet of C code are pretty lamentable.
Examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etl
Err, I wasn't finished yet. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_warehouse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_%28computer_science%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning ({{expert}}) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Workflow_Analysis
In general, lots of bullet points, but no sources. Little to no academic journals cited to analyse how the concepts fit together. On specific technologies or products the articles are usually pretty helpful. But for trying to understand general concepts like enterprise resource planning...Wikipedia will not (currently) even get you off the ground.
(I would change my original statement to refer to information systems or software engineering rather than just computer science)
Steve