[game_preservation] Wikipedia thoughts?

[Andrew Armstrong]

 From some recent curfuffles on Wikipedia deleting MUD article(s):

http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2009/01/losing_the_thre.html
http://www.igda.org/preservation/archives/2009/01/more_on_thresho.html

I wanted to know if anyone on the list had thoughts on Wikipedia - as a 
resource, as a solution or problem, or whatever. I'm just interested, 
I've not investigated it much myself, and only ever use the 
encyclopaedia for general reading, but the quality of some subjects is 
pretty poor (or, as we can see, not even there now).

Hopefully the situation will improve over time. I was also going to see 
what perhaps Mobygames were doing to expand their database (if they were 
going to) - there is a lot of credits, covers and screenshots, but not 
much actual written content about the games in the database, which is a 
shame really.

Andrew