[yorwba]

"Only one or two" isn't zero. The problem isn't that a small community can only write a small Wikipedia, but that there's a global supply of fools who want to make every small Wikipedia bigger, even if they're completely unqualified to do so.

Wikipedia is built around the basic principle that if you just let everyone contribute, most contributions will be helpful and you can just revert the bad ones after the fact. This works for large communities that easily outnumber the global supply of fools, but below a certain size threshold, the sign flips and the average edit makes that version of Wikipedia worse rather than better.

So smaller communities probably need to flip the operating principle of Wikipedia on its head and limit new users to only creating drafts, on the assumption that most will be useless, and an admin can accept the good ones after the fact.

I'm not sure whether Wikipedia already has the software features necessary to operate it in such a closed-by-default manner.

[justsomehnguy]

> a small community can only write a small Wikipedia

For whom?

[yorwba]

For people who couldn't write that article themselves, but would like to read it if it existed. Same as big Wikipedias, just on a smaller scale.