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This evil cult of Wikipedia is producing something similar to but not quite like an encyclopedia. This so called "encyclopedia" really s*x in many articles, but most articles are acceptable. A limited few, not too few however, in fact a considerable number, is much much better than any that ever have been produced in an encyclopedia, f.ex. Nero. If it was an encyclopedia, the number of articles would be limited, but in Wikipedia the number of articles is just mind-blowing. The articles counterparting those existing in an encyclopedia are also generally longer and more detailed for technical reasons and because it is possible. Not every topic is treated, but most of the topics you suspected, and far more other that you had no chance in universe to expect. We Wikipedians are usually not scientists, there are scientists here, but the environment is much more like a self-organised crowd of randomly walking wooden librarians. We're somewhat compatible to scientists, but not too much. F.ex. is a POVvy attitude common and acceptable among scientists, but not very well looked upon on Wikipedia, but scientists can, if polite, just persuade us wooden librarian that their POV is important, and citeable. It works and is actually the best method.
There are "fools" among us, that won't accept reason, but among all anarchy, there actually exists "bureaucratic procedures" (not in the sense proper, they're actually temporary ad hoc erected voting comittees) with which to threaten individuals that have problem with provoking too much aggression. Most "fools" will just grow older and more mature. Some very few will alienate the Wikipedia community.
Personally I'm a fact-evaluating technical memory guy. I'm here for the knowledge processing methods, not necessary for the knowledge itself, since much of the content here is very specialized, and not really interesting to me, except as a general sense of fascination for everything new. I care for the readers and the editors if they are adding texts, I don't actually care for discussions or for socializing, except intermittently. Much of my "work" here is long lonesome reading for the sake of learning.
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