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eru
on Aug 4, 2011
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Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors
Do you see that page as a good or bad example?
mclin
on Aug 4, 2011
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Well, I'd seen the term 'Continuous Linear System' somewhere and came to this page, where it starts out as:
Consider the continuous linear time-variant system
<equations!>
so, bad.
eru
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It's a math topic. Expect equations.
bane
on Aug 5, 2011
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The problem is not that it has equations, it's that, unless you already understand the topic to some level of mastery, you can't even understand the page...ergo it's not a useful resource.
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