"PDN" == Pablo De N?poli <Pablo> writes:
PDN> I don't want to start a flame war but I want to express my PDN> point of view on the way that articles are edited in PDN> wikipedia.
There are a lot of places to do this: on the village pump, on the meta-wikipedia, and on the talk pages for individual articles.
One advantage of using the wiki itself for commenting on how the wiki works is that you'll see what others have said before.
PDN> Needless to say, Lebesgue integration is indeed an advanced PDN> topic in mathematics, so that any article on this subject is PDN> necesarilly advanced (or does not covered the topic).
That's an important trade-off to note: extent of coverage versus generality. It's probably a good idea to start articles with general introductory text, and then if one needs to get into the nitty-gritty, do it later on. Give the layman a chance to bail out.
It's also worth noting that Wikipedia is not a textbook. There's another project for that: www.wikibooks.org. Knowing how much information to include in a Wikipedia article is a black art.
PDN> It seems to me that the model of wikipedia is too much open, PDN> so that open that anyone can annonymously edit any page. That PDN> I think is to much.
There's an article about this on the meta wikipedia:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_users_should_not_be_allowed_to_edit...
Good pros-and-cons discussion here:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Anonymous_users_should_not_be_allowed_to...
PDN> But without a team of core developers or a project leader for PDN> each section how can you assure a minimum of quality of PDN> wikipedia?
One reason that Wikipedia works so well is that it's structured to support a low level of commitment from a high number of people. Other encyclopedias are built with a high level of commitment from a low number of people.
There is a project to make an Open Content encyclopedia like that. It's called Nupedia, and the main page is here:
You should check it out.
~ESP