From: "Andrea Zanni" zanni.andrea84@gmail.com
It seems that Humanities are overall a problematic area for Wikipedia, because less involved in consensus building, and much focused in the stratification of different interpretations.
No quite untrue. My background is analytic philosophy and I have worked on many articles and have made friends with those working in the 'European' tradition of philosophy. We settled our differences (indeed ignored our differences from the beginning) and worked to defend philosophy articles from the endless vandalism. There was never any disagreement. But most of them have given up by now.
From: "Excirial" wp.excirial@gmail.com
The problem you mention is actually the stagnation of edits.
You snipped the bit where I talked about the benchmark article which is gradually eroded into chaos. Unless the articles are well looked after by those that care and understand, they deteriorate and rot away. Do you propose any solutions for this? I'm interesting in solutions.
From: "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@fairpoint.net
We need to set up a regular mechanism which analyzes and searches for errors.
Well I'm working through articles and writing them up and reporting them (I'm not correcting them, obviously). But there are many thousands of errors, and I am one person :(