[WikiEN-l] Cory Doctorow: Wikipedia is facts-about-facts

[George Herbert]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol20/?pg=16
>>
>>
> Argument intelligent enough, use of "notable" is off-base though since
> for us notability is an attribute of topics.

He's describing WP for an external audience.  Not his fault that we
have internal jargon which is not entirely aligned with outside
standard english.

A lot of scientists hate science writers for imprecise writing.  But
it's unavoidable - you lose something when you step away from the
jargon, and if you don't step away from the jargon then the mass
readership loses you immediately.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com