[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

[geni]

2009/3/25 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
> Getting back to the original post.
>
> How's Wikipedia's coverage of history, compared to the average British
> school textbook?
>
> -Durova

Probably more comprehensive in that no one has yet worked out how to
make a text book 30 foot thick. On the other hand in say the case of
WW1 wikipedia tends to focus on the battles, the tactics, the weapons
and to an extent the politics rather than what life was like for the
average solider.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_warfare#Life_in_the_trenches

probably comes closest.

Compare that with the length of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Chamond_(tank)


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geni