Idea Is Queen!

While I was looking for some explanations of financial terms on Wikipedia, I came up with a question: why those valuable infos couldn’t be more organized and more contextual-based? Why not make entries as textbooks of various topics? I know there’s a section called “see also” and “further reading” and “reference”, but entries there are literal text-relevant items, which means similar key words, or sometimes a collection of entries belong to a broad topic. Those are not semantically related, not to mention a systematical structure of learning curve.

Maybe editors (or normal users) can try to organize entries into categories, or step-by-step learning programs. For example, if I search for the term “EPS(earning per share)”, the returns include entries (basic knowledges like what is gross profit, what is revenue, what is common stock issue, what is preferred stock issue, etc etc. ) I should check first that can help me understand EPS more easily. At the end of the article should be entries recommended to me that are also checked by other users after reading through this one. Or a “Chapter II” link leads me to the next stage of financial knowledge.

Will enthusiasts do this job voluntarily? I would like to hire a bunch of experts to compile this super textbook collection leveraging resources from Wikipedia. Of course only if I meet some crazy VCs .

Hacking Wikipedia? Wikipedia API? Perhaps no sooner we can find Wikipedia-branded online textbooks of Introduction to Accounting or Introduction to Economics!?

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