Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Wikipedia's Participation Problem

Posted by Unknown on from the too-lazy-to-edit dept.

holy_calamity writes "More people use Wikipedia than ever but the number of people contributing to the project has declined by a third since 2007, and it still has significant gaps in its quality and coverage. MIT Technology Review reports on the troubled efforts to make the site more welcoming to newcomers, which Jimmy Wales says must succeed if Wikipedia is to address its failings."

2 of 372 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Statistics by disposable60 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    But it's not a mature product. It's a lazy adolescent product only updated by fanbois and axe-grinders (to too large an extent).

    --
    You're looking for quotes? See my journal.
  2. Re:The established editors are the problem. by i+kan+reed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, because 4.3 million English language articles is a sure sign of the victory of "deletionists". Sorry you couldn't put yourself on wikipedia as "the smartest dude ever." I dare you to go to the delition log for today and tell me that more than 5% of them have the bearest hint of being related to an encyclopedia.

    They are 50% copyright violations, 40% self-promotion, and maybe 5-6% vaguely inappropriate in a non-specific way.