[Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

[Peter Damian]

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From: "Nathan" <nawrich at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

> What would you suggest the Wikimedia Foundation do to address the coverage
> problem in the humanities? Employ academic experts to add content? Delete
> ephemera to improve the balance of topics?

There are always several steps to solving problems.  The first is always to 
establish a consensus that there *is* a problem.  Everyone, or at everyone 
who counts, needs to recognise that there is a serious problem and that it 
must be solved.  Only until then can you progress to the next step, which is 
to consider methods of solving the problem.

Normally it is the first step that is the main difficulty.  As it is in the 
present case: I don't see any consensus here (apart from a handful of other 
posts, such as Andreas above) that there is any problem.