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?

    • Niquarl
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      4 years ago

      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.

    • nutomicA
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      4 years ago

      Wow this is very interesting, in the first years they barely managed to spend 50% of their income, and even now its only 75%. So their net assets have gone up by double digit percentages every single year. I wonder which bank holds all that money.