[WikiEN-l] Found on Usenet

[Steve Bennett]

On 1/21/08, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikipedia's main weakness is that, at base, it's a pub conversation.
> It's a large pub conversation, and is open to contributions from
> passers-by who know their onions, but it's still basically a bunch of
> interested people who might -- or might not -- know much about
> something, having a chat."

I would say, more like a Mensa meeting or something. Read an article
about trains, and the contributors aren't "passers-by", they're train
nuts who went out of their way to find a forum that actually wants
their ridiculous level of knowleddge on the subject.

The really crappy areas are ones where there are no subject areas, and
really broad terms.

Steve