Wikipages generated by the server do not follow W3C recommmendations. Now that we eventually have an open standard for HTML, why not use it?
One of the reasons why http://www.wikipedia.org does not validate is that the character-set is not specified, you should include a line like this:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
You can easily see what other errors are made, when you type in an URI at http://validator.w3.org/. Page "http://www.wikipedia.org/" for example is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional! Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
1.Line 7, column 7: required attribute "TYPE" not specified.
<SCRIPT> ^
2.Line 87, column 28: start tag for "TR" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this.
<th colspan="2" align=center><big> Selected Articles </big></th></tr> ^
Kins regards, Pieter Suurmond