David Gerard wrote:
(For all the talk of Wikipedia being "the encyclopedia Slashdot built," I'm suspecting we have far less computer people than we do arts people editing. Or more would idly turn their hand to MediaWiki. I'm learning PHP specifically so I can do evil things to the software, first for myself then for all you lovely people.)
Judging from the level of technical insight in the average Slashdot comment and the performance of the Wikipedia website during 2002 and 2003, it would be fair to assume that both the Slashdot crowd and the Mediawiki developers consist of art students who have yet to learn some programming.
Fortunately, the sluggish Wikipedia performance can and has been compensated by adding hardware. I wish the same was true for the quality of Slashdot postings.