05 November 2013 66 5K Report

Can we believe it? Can we rely on them? And to what extent?

Looking at Wikipedia from the outside (as a reader), it seems perfect with its highest Google rank. But here I want to look at it from the inside (as a contributor).

Really, Wikipedia is a great idea, like Google and social networks, but Wikipedians (Wikipedia editors) in the area of electronics are not so great. I found this from my bitter experience that I gained during five years (2006-2011) when cooperating actively in the electronics section. Maybe my observations are (I hope) valid only for some particular articles but IMO they are typical for the majority of Wikipedia editors in this area.

The main problem of this kind of Wikipedians is that they blindly convey the knowledge from reputable sources but they do not want to think, consider, discuss and explain the essence of things. They say WHAT is made but they do not say WHY it is made in this way since they "can't see the wood from the trees".

Although most of them are well educated in reputable high schools and universities, in practice, typical Wikipedians are formal, limited and "sterile" people that actually do not understand circuits. This was the naked truth I realized - they know circuits but they do not understand them. As a consequence, web readers cannot understand them as well (as students cannot understand what their teacher explains if he/she does not understand what teaches). And what is even more of a problem, they do not allow anyone who understands circuits and can explain them to do it. And maybe the biggest problem is that later the "best" of these orthodox Wikipedians become Wikipedia administrators that, of course, tolerate them but depress creatively thinking contributors.

Being a Wikipedian, I (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Circuit_dreamer, 7589 contributions) have accumulated the most of these observations mainly from my contribution in the controversial Wikipedia article about negative resistance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_resistance

The history and talk pages (including the archives) show the dramatic "battle" between me and Wikipedians inhabitting this space. Finally, I migrated to Wikibooks where I started Circuit Idea wikibook

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Circuit_Idea

and wrote the story about negative resistance https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Circuit_Idea/Revealing_the_Mystery_of_Negative_Impedance

I suggest, if you are not familiar with the negative resistance phenomenon, to conduct such an experiment - first read the Wikipedia article and then - my Wikibooks story to make a difference.

And to be honest, finally I will share that in contrast to this unsuccessful attempt to discover the secret of the negative impedance phenomenon in Wikipedia, I still managed to do it with another great idea - the Miller's theorem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_theorem

The reaction of Wikipedians in this case was only silence... 6-year silence...

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