"The Cunctator" wrote
I soundly disagree with you that's the main conclusion from this discussion.
I'm open to other conclusions.
In fact, looking at your above summary, I might think the proper conclusion to draw is that the bureaucratic overhead of contributing to Wikipedia has grown out of control.
It probably is harder to be a newbie. But you can still turn up and edit 99.9% of the articles without having an account. It is not plausible to me that there is a solution to compiling the largest repository (of its kind) of human knowledge ever, without some sort of trade-off. 'Open for business' is still hanging there on the door.
Charles
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