gwern branwen wrote:
I agree with you that the *prose* in our best articles tends to deteriorate over time but I don't think the basic information does
Well, maybe, but based on my own experiences, content is also deteriorating, and I have several cases in which I am pretty sure that if I had left Wikipedia and not corrected it , it would have been still wrong. Actually, I tried it out with three errors, after waiting a month, I gave up and corrected it.
Kim