Hi People,

I am working on a news story about the people behind the India-specific Wikipedia pages and how a bunch of really eclectic personalities spend tons of time to ensure pages are clean and useful. However one of them mentioned that it is slowly becoming more and more difficult for new writers to join in as contributions have become extremely complicated. Some of the simplest things lead to disputes and trivialities cause locks on certain articles.

I was wondering if you guys had an opinion on this? Is Wikipedia increasingly becoming more and more difficult for first-timers? I am talking about those who intend to specialize in certain topics and be active and regular. I work for the mint-Wall Street Journal in Mumbai. I was asked to mail this group by Angela Beesely.