From the site you linked<p>&gt;&gt;There are the obvious display problems: Wikipedia pages look like a dull grey textbook. Almost every page is an over-long stream of text with hardly any video or even images. Pages about movies don’t even have trailers. This has big implications for kids brought up using visual media like Instagram and YouTube who are not interested in getting information about their favorite movies, musicians and celebrities from a textbook.<p>Wikipedia&#x27;s aim may not be to become popular <i>by just being an eye-candy</i>. One of their features, what you call there as &quot;dull grey textbook&quot; is what I like very much. It allows the reader to read the thing comfortably and it also helps the pages load faster.<p>&gt;&gt;As the quote goes: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.<p>May be for some people this is true. But many people serious about studying a topic actually may find written material quite important and helpful. Wikipedia is about providing knowledge about topics, so if music is a topic it can provide knowledge about it and knowledge about something is not <i>only</i> that thing. There are many meta properties (outcomes of analysis, comparisons etc) that can be described <i>meaningfully and concisely</i> only in writing and are important.<p>&gt;&gt;Over the past few months Newslines writers have added over 22,000 posts without a single edit war or controversy.<p>If you stick to only some news (e.g. celebrity news) you won&#x27;t get much controversy. But wikipedia is not for just news topics. It has provided space for many oppressed groups to post their views which are sure to generate controversy. (e.g. see these pages [1],[2],[3])<p>Your comparison of that site [4] with Wikipedia is therefore not has much foundation.<p>I don&#x27;t say that there is no need to improve Wikipedia but it requires better and deeper understanding and appreciation of Wikipedia, its readership and its goals.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apostasy_in_Islam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Apostasy_in_Islam</a>
[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gulag" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gulag</a>
[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Critique_of_Marxism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Critique_of_Marxism</a>
[4] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newslines.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newslines.org&#x2F;</a>