<palecur> I am embarrassed that the article on the Khitomer Accords is longer, better organized, and more thorough than the article on the Crimean War.
<palecur> it speaks poorly of us as a species.
It's interesting that the Khitomer vs. Crimea disparity eventually resolved itself. Part of this may be a question of relative rates: the things that dorks could write about off the tops of their heads, such as anime character bios and video game plots, filled up Wikipedia rapidly in the early years, whereas notable subjects take actual research.
The reason I feel kind of good about Wikipedia despite everything is, I think, the reason I mentioned a while ago: unlike the discussion pages and revision histories, which are dominated by Wikipedia regulars fond of pissing contests, the actual content (particularly on subjects that are actually worthy of note) mostly comes from occasional posters who are not interested in that crap. Citizendium is probably doomed because it's constructed to appeal to the hardest of the hardcore of Wikipedia policy infighters.
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Date: 2006-10-25 03:40 pm (UTC)The reason I feel kind of good about Wikipedia despite everything is, I think, the reason I mentioned a while ago: unlike the discussion pages and revision histories, which are dominated by Wikipedia regulars fond of pissing contests, the actual content (particularly on subjects that are actually worthy of note) mostly comes from occasional posters who are not interested in that crap. Citizendium is probably doomed because it's constructed to appeal to the hardest of the hardcore of Wikipedia policy infighters.