2009/12/15 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Andrew Lih (Fuzheado) is one of us, so at least knows what he's talking about!
It's not clear what "much better" means for en:wp. "Better" is attainable, but what would being notably better than we are look like?
(I think the last big changes were (a) useful as a general encyclopedia, which we weren't five years ago except in limited areas; (ii) a culture of references, which was a b*gg*r to get started. By the way, I created the {{unref}} template.)
Wikipedia is probably not able to drive change (not least because we've probably hit the limits of the software) but it is able to be involved with it.
For example the popularity of wikipedia applications related to augmented reality shows that it able to be involved with change. On the other hand we have no way to drive use of 2D barcodes pointing at wikipedia articles and thus we can't really be involved with augmented reality below the level that GPS reaches.