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Re:Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of a... by ghaff on Saturday February 11, 2017 @02:32PM (#13624284)
Many of them seem to be written/edited by people who are more interested in using an equation editor than in trying to explain the topic. I don't necessarily expect ELI5 level but I wonder how many people who don't already understand the topic in depth can decode most of those math pages.

They dive into a lot of jargon and rarely attempt to provide any real context that a non-specialist can understand.

I understand that it's hard to do and it also reflects the fact that Wikipedia pages are wildly variable in the audience they're written for.

Re:Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of a... by milesrout on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:39AM (#13627302)
It's an encyclopaedia. A reference. It's not intended that anyone can open any random page and understand all of it.