Wikipedia

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What do you think of Wikipedia?

If you were in charge of a project to create something like Wikipedia, but better, what would you create?

Comments

[barking-watcher.livejournal.com]

I use it as a quick reference tool, though I don't always to the information as gospel.

If I were to make any changes to an improved version, it would be to try and limit links within articles. I've only seen a few examples and I can't give you any specifics but there have been times when I've seen articles like the example below

Mr Brown was a respected member of the community and lived in a {link} house {/link} on the High Street.

Now that was an extreme example of what I mean but I hope you get the gist of what I mean.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Yes, that annoys me too. A link to a photo of the house would be great, but if I wanted a definition of "house", I'd use a dictionary.

[reddragdiva]

I will occasionally pepper stuff with links when I picture it being read by the excessively bright ten-year-old encyclopedia devourer I once was.