Diminishing ability to contribute

On popular culture topics, it may be true that the average Wikipedia article is good. On the majority of academic topics however, you are better off picking a random source from the en.wp article's references and reading that instead, or searching google books and finding a suitable book for larger topics. Wikipedia's strength is quantity (of articles) over quality (of any given article) by and large. There was an academic study on the quality of FA-rated articles; about half of them were found deficient by experts. Yes, Wikipedia is better than Britannica, but nowhere near a specialized source for any given topic, or even broad area (say like the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

85.204.164.2610:32, 16 March 2011