On 3/7/07, Frederick Noronha fred@bytesforall.org wrote:
Could someone hazard a guess on which areas the Wikipedia is strong in, and which areas it is still lacking? FN
I think Wikipedia is really strong in some pop culture niches (yes,
Pokemon may be one of that) and is weaker in some more scholarly subjects. But this varies from project to project and from topic to topic. There are articles which are the most complete essay ever written on the topic, there are articles that simply suck. Uniformity is something we're weak (basically people write about what they know and/or care about). We are strong in correcting factual mistakes, we are weak because we cannot guarantee if what we say is correct. We are strong because we give access to basic information of very many things to a huge lot of people, and for most of them we offer enough. We're far from being perfect, there's a lot to improve, but we're good at it.
Marco/Cruccone