Hello,
2010/9/18 Peter Damian <peter.damian(a)btinternet.com>om>:
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From: "Nathan" <nawrich(a)gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
What would you suggest the Wikimedia Foundation
do to address the coverage
problem in the humanities? Employ academic experts to add content? Delete
ephemera to improve the balance of topics?
There are always several steps to solving problems. The first is always to
establish a consensus that there *is* a problem. Everyone, or at everyone
who counts, needs to recognise that there is a serious problem and that it
must be solved. Only until then can you progress to the next step, which is
to consider methods of solving the problem.
I agree with that. The first step is to acknowkedge that there is a problem.
But most people I have read about this topic even deny that.
So we can't go further until this is accepted.
BTW this is also the case on the French Wikipedia, so the issue is not
restricted
to the English Wikipedia.
Normally it is the first step that is the main
difficulty. As it is in the
present case: I don't see any consensus here (apart from a handful of other
posts, such as Andreas above) that there is any problem.
Regards,
Yann