[WikiEN-l] Re: "Can you trust Wikipedia?"
dpbsmith at verizon.net
dpbsmith at verizon.net
Thu Oct 27 20:44:08 UTC 2005
>From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
>> The Guardian has a story entitled "Can you trust Wikipedia?" in which
>> various specialists rate Wikipedia articles in their field of
>> knowledge: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1599116,00.html
>> [and gave ratings of 0, 5, 6, 6, 7, and 8 out of 10]
>One distinctive feature of Wikipedia is the ability to self-correct. A
>simple issue like the Wheatley/Wheatly spelling in the Pepys article can
>be checked, and if need be corrected, very quickly. What would be more
>interesting would be to have these same critics review the same articles
>a month later to comment on the changes that have taken place as a
>result of their criticism.
Jam tomorrow.
To readers, Wikipedia is exactly as good as it is on the day they consult it,
not a month later.
Do you go to a newsstand and buy the late edition of a newspaper in case
something has been updated from the edition they delivered to your porch?
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