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
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