[Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

[Yann Forget]

Hello,

2010/9/18 Peter Damian <peter.damian at btinternet.com>:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathan" <nawrich at gmail.com>
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 4:53 PM
> 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.

I agree with that. The first step is to acknowkedge that there is a problem.
But most people I have read about this topic even deny that.
So we can't go further until this is accepted.
BTW this is also the case on the French Wikipedia, so the issue is not
restricted
to the English Wikipedia.

> 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.

Regards,

Yann