Perhaps I'm being a bit ignorant here, but I've been browsing wikipedia for a little while now and have found certain topics to be particularly unreadable, namely the more grandoise topics such as politics. But it's not that they don't make sense, it's just that there are so many prerequesite terms that you need to first look at to understand something - and then these prereq. terms themselves have prerequisites terms that you need to click through and read about.
Take the article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialismfor example, just by reading the first few paragraphs you are inundated with terms and concepts that make it impossible to get any sort of brief understanding unless you click through. To me it seems unnecessarily complicated and makes reading it quite a task, imploring me to remember all the terms and meanings just to understand a simple concept, my short term memory is only so big.
But I don't know how other people see it, perhaps I'm looking at things the wrong way or I should have a better understanding of something before trying to decipher the wiki page. What do you guys think, is wikipedia unreadable?
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Take the article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialismfor example, just by reading the first few paragraphs you are inundated with terms and concepts that make it impossible to get any sort of brief understanding unless you click through. To me it seems unnecessarily complicated and makes reading it quite a task, imploring me to remember all the terms and meanings just to understand a simple concept, my short term memory is only so big.
But I don't know how other people see it, perhaps I'm looking at things the wrong way or I should have a better understanding of something before trying to decipher the wiki page. What do you guys think, is wikipedia unreadable?
Oh and poll is anonymous for the self-conscious
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