Talk:Wiki science/Budding Effect

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" Wikibooks itself 'budded' off of WikiPedia, out of the need to provide more in-depth information in various topics"

I'm not sure that "the need to provide in-depth information" is the right way to describe the situation. In Wikipedia I have seen the suggestion that, "Education material should go to Wikibooks. Reference material should stay here."

"Reference material" in fields like mathematics and biology can be meaningless to anyone who is not an expert. I hate the idea that someone would go to Wikipedia and find nothing but jargon-laced articles about science and mathematics that can only be understood by experts.

How do we define the correct balance between serving experts and serving non-experts who are interested in a topic? Is it enough to simply make links between Wikipedia and Wikibooks? JWSchmidt 15:05, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree :) Wikipedia articles should be understandable by someone who is not an expert in the field - or explicitly point to another Wikipedia article that gives an introduction. For instance, the Galois group article does not need to explain a novice what a group is, but it would be very useful to make it clear that the novice should first try to understand what is written in the group article. Anyway, be bolder! :) You could have changed this line 2 months ago - I have overlooked it many times. Akagu 23:59, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

Multilingual budding effect
A poorly understood phenomenon is the difference with which wikipedias in different languages grow. As a null hypothesis, one would expect some fixed rate between size of speaker community and size of wikipedia (eventually corrected for size of online speakers...). But this is not what we get. Why? Trondtr 06:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC).