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I believe Wikipedia is doomed to failureuselessness at worstbest or uselessnessfailure at bestworst. This is not the same as saying that I have ill wishes for Wikipedia, simply that I am pessimistic about the future. Despite this, I hope to make useful contributions to Wikipedia as I can.

It is my opinion that there are three attributes that are necessary for any [[encyclopedia]], including [[Wikipedia]], to be useful.

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Wikipedia has a constantly evolving hierarchy of information, flow of importance, and point of view. I don't believe, ''as it exists at this moment in time'', that Wikipedia expresses these attributes in a useful form. I unsure whether I believe Wikipedia can evolve to the point where it does possess all these attributes in a useful form.

A good digression at this point would be to clarify what it is for an enclopedia to be ''useful'', or more specifically, who it is that an encylopedia should be useful to. Clearly there are currently a large number of people who have made contributions to Wikipedia, so it could be said that these people found it ''useful'' to make their contributions. But that is like saying that a book is useful merely because the author enjoyed writing it, and although that is true it misses the point of what Wikipedia is striving to be. Wikiepedia wants to be an encylopedia, which means that the usefulness of Wikipedia should be measured by ''how much utility it provides to the encylopedia reader''.

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Is this a useful representation of ''123''?

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Why or why not?

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