On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:43:36AM -0300, Pablo De NĂ¡poli wrote:
After that, looking at the history of the page, I find that some rather old previous versions where much better, but they had been deleted since a user consider them "too advanced". Needless to say, Lebesgue integration is indeed an advanced topic in mathematics, so that any article on this subject is necesarilly advanced (or does not covered the topic).
Such a topic is an extreme example, but you always should try to write an article clear and easy enough that one who has just started to work into this topic will find great help in you article.
It seems to me that the model of wikipedia is too much open, so that open that anyone can annonymously edit any page.
In my eyes wikipedia is NOT open enough, but the problem is mankind has too much bad behaviours and we can't trust our own kind.
Another idea that comes to my mind is that there could be some teams for especific topics, that manage the pages in some section (say mathematics, geogrpahy, economics or whatever). This does not mean that any user from outside the team could not submit modifications. But without a team of core developers or a project leader for each section how can you assure a minimum of quality of wikipedia?
There are WikiProjects, although they mostly have no leader, they bring some order into the chaos.
(this is more or less the model in all free software projects, no project grants write access to cvs to everyone anonymously, say)
That's a different thing. It requires special abilites to write software, abilities which only few people have.
ciao, tom