----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan" nawrich@gmail.com To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org 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.
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.