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?

    • nutomicA
      4·
      4 years ago

      The layout/ux is really complicated, most people would probably not use it for that reason alone.

      • SnowCodeOP
        2·
        4 years ago

        Yes, but there’s worse: to edit a page, you need to host an instance of the wiki yourself.

      • SnowCodeOP
        3·
        4 years ago

        I think it works using forks, which means several versions can coexist. You can accept or decline a fork of another user on your instance.