On 12/15/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
What I would love to see is a study in a few weeks/months to show the evolution of these 50 articles in the days following the Nature article... and the delay which was necessary to track the various errors.
I would also welcome on the WMF site a paper summarizing both the findings of Nature AND the consequences of the article (both in the press... and directly on Wikipedia articles or on Wikipedians state of mind).
That is a good idea. Perhaps a significant group could collaborate on an analytical paper, with input from the authors of the Nature study, third-party academics using EB and WP, WP contributors, and changes to the WP articles... and submit such a beast to a peer-reviewed journal for publication.
SJ