ABSTRACT
Wikipedia, with its thousands of potential editors, is good at winnowing out bad grammar, but even so, mistakes frequently occur. Typical are sentences without main verbs, participles that do not agree with the subject of the sentence, and too few or too many commas. There might even be spelling errors in spite of all the spell checks. Interesting generalizations, however, often run the risk of bias. Wikipedia stresses that articles should always have a neutral point of view, but of course this is one of the most difficult things to achieve, even when dealing with the distant past. Many editors of Wikipedia are likely to be more at home with the Internet than with printed material. Nevertheless, because an encyclopaedia ought to be a portal to the wider intellectual world, it is important that if possible there should also be references to recently published books or articles.
