I LOVE Wikipedia, I think it’s one of the best websites of the internet.
But the fact is that Wikipedia has many flaws:
- Editing became very hard on Wikipedia based on the amount of rules to respect
- Wikipedia is biased, many cultures and minorities are not well represented among editors and pages.
- Wikipedia is a dependence, I can’t imagine Wikipedia disappear, I think it already changed the way people see knowledge, not as something fixed anymore, but as something dynamic that changes and evolve.
- Wikipedia ‘sources admission’ are also very… Weird. Because you can be a professional in a special field, it doesn’t mean your contribution will be accepted, just because your source is not coming from a ‘reliable source’, even if YOU are this reliable source.
There are other problems as well, but I think those are the most important ones.
What do you think about it? If you could change anything or everything to Wikipedia, what would you do?
I’m not one to be overly optimistic about using interesting and investment profits to fund stuff but when less than 6% of spending is used on the absolutely necessary then indeed that could be a good idea. Quite clearly it seems like they could even save up to have 10,20,30 years in the next couple of years. I had no idea they were spending so much money (a lot I’m sure justified) yet still that’s pretty disgusting to donors imo. I will not be donating anytime soon for sure.