The Mangoe wrote:
This has topic-drifted like mad, so please excuse this as being a collection of utterly unrelated material.
One of the things that has bothered me is the way in which Wikipedia has tended to attempt to take over from more specialized efforts which are surely more authoritative than anything we can produce.
Unless these specialized efforts are also NPOV and under the GFDL (or similar CC licence) there really is a benefit to be gained in reinventing that particular wheel.
It would be nice to come up with some way to turn ourselves into a portal to the good (meaning reliable) stuff for these subjects.
In terms of being able to organize and integrate the information it's hard to beat the benefit of simply incorporating it directly into Wikipedia.