Why are there so many questions here that are fully answered on wikipedia?
Askville is still new and people are excited about using it. This will probably settle down a bit once the novelty wears off (though there will always be newbies). After using Askville a bit, a user will figure out for which questions Askville is most useful, and for which a web search works best.
I noticed this, too, and I’m glad you asked, because it gives me a chance to test my theory through the ever-so-valuable coin grading scale! Issue 1: The ongoing Wikipedia v. Encyclopaedia Britannica v. all other reference sources debate. Because wikipedia’s reliability is still being tested, some people might be hesitant to believe everything written on the site. Although Nature found Wikipedia to be swiftly catching up to E.B. in validity of science articles (http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html), many people are still hesitant to fall in with the masses. Read or see Ibsen’s Enemy of the People as one example of why we might not trust everything the mob tells us. Of course, for that matter, is Askville yet another implementation of mob strategy, where everyman is able to assert his authority in a neutral arena? And what about The Wisdom of Crowds, both as a book a
