User:Hadžija/Wikipedia

There are many problems with Wikipedia as of January 2007. I'd just like to set my thoughts out, and if anyone cares to comment, they're more than welcome.
 * 1) Wikipedia is too open. Wikipedia probably needed to be wide-open when it was relatively unknown and unestablished, as the incentive to edit it was relatively low. Now, however, the Wikipedia article is the first Google result for many topics, films, people, historical events. The incentive to edit it is pretty high, and the entry barrier extremely low. You click the edit button, and without even having to register an account, you can now hold forth on your pet topic to a large number of people casually interested in learning about it. Alternatively, you can insert hundreds of full screen photos of a penis into the article. Of course, what you write nee
 * 2) Wikipedia is stagnating. But it's growing all the time, I hear you cry. It's almost got 1.6 million articles! Indeed it does, and most of them are exceedingly mediocre. There are just over 1,200 featured articles, and even many of those are not up to a professional standard. That's one in 1,300, or less than 0.01% of articles, that meet some sort of minimum standard. Wikipedia does have many so-called "good" articles, but they are only good compared to the majority of Wikipedia articles.
 * 3) Wikipedia degrades without constant attention. There are over 300 former featured articles - articles that used to be featured but are no longer good enough. Many articles get to be featured through the dedicated work of one editor, then get degraded through the well meaning edits of
 * 4) Wikipedia is irresponsible.

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