Wikipedia

[ciphergoth]

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

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

I think it's a way for rich patriarchs to share their biased views with the world.

If it was me I'd create a 'thoughtapedia' which explained a topic clearly then allowed you to compare differing viewpoints on it. I'd also make sure it could be inputted to by people without regular access to computers, but I've no idea how.

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

I'd also ask for a bit of background about the person writing the article - are they:

a) Jane/Joe Blogs
b) Someone who read about this in a newspaper (and which one!)
c) A jouranlist who write about this in a newspaper (and which one!)
d) A politician with a viewpoint to push
e) A researcher, and what viewpoint are they coming from
f) An academic, if so where from

etc

[reddragdiva]

http://wikinfo.org/ runs on Sympathetic Point Of View instead, with sets of articles.

Many of the smaller-language Wikipedias are in fact written like this, with people being sought out to write articles on paper if need be.

[reddragdiva]

"I think it's a way for rich patriarchs to share their biased views with the world."

More importantly: what would you suggest, if anything, to remedy this problem? Let's assume for this discussion that Wikipedia isn't going to go away or drop in popularity any time soon, even if that were to be considered desirable.

Also, see this - is this something to address the problems you see?