2009/4/3 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
2009/4/3 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
We know this. It's pretty much the reaction of
journalists when told
to stop useing wikipedia.
Well, a journalist's job is pretty much to turn good but unreliable
sources into something useful. So *if* they keep their journalistic
wits about them they're fine. I assume all journalists use Wikipedia,
so the fact that journalists getting caught out using it sloppily is
reportable news itself is heartening.
Looking at the actual report the treasure hunt concept
seems
interesting if the exact opposite of something I sometimes do with
wikipedia (find a random slightly obscure source then use it to add
info to appropriate wikipedia articles).
Pretty much. See a fact or article, it triggers your Wikipedia Sense,
you go to the article ... and someone got there already.
(I scored adding the death of Encarta! w00t!)
- d.