On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 04:07:54PM +0200, Rotem Dan wrote:
Prior knowledge, background, and education. A lot of articles assume the reader is fairly (or even highly in the scientific articles) educated and knowledgeable in the subject of the article. For each article there should be an extensive background paragraph(s), which specifically states what the article is about, it's general field and it's uses in "Real life":
Linking is the right answer here, in my opinion. You shouldn't have to wade through a thorough grounding in computer science before reading about how LL parsers work. Instead, [[Computer science]] and [[Compilers]] should be prominently linked, along with each technical term used.
I think - * Everybody should be able to understand broadly what an article is describing (LL Parsers are a technique used in computer science to interpret text, or something. You get the idea, I'm sure)
* Everybody should be able to learn whatever they need to understand any given article merely by clicking within wikipedia. Obviously this is a [[platonic]] wikipedia that has the sum of all human knowledge contained within it :-)
* Everybody should *not necessarily* be able to understand an article just by reading it
Oh, and many "borrowed" phrases from non-English languages are an inseparable part of English vocabulary, in my opinion. If I mean per se, or de facto, or de jure, I should be able to say so. Don't steal away the richness of the language for the sake of avoiding making people expand their vocabulary, please!