Ooops, sorry, it's late here.
There wad a missing paragraph from my original email.
It is the chief editor (I think) of World Book Encyclopedia speaking about how *they* deal with validation and fact checking. They are the ones who already use this approach.
-- nyenyec
On 10/1/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Nyenyec N wrote:
On 9/29/06, Mak makwik@gmail.com wrote:
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actual encyclopedias, you will notice that they don't have inline references, especially for generally accepted facts.
That's true, but is also misleading. You don't see those references in the *end product*.
But encyclopedia's do check the sources of their statements. I highly recommend that you listen to this:
http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archives Validation on Wikipedia: How do I know this article is accurate?
- An expert writes an article.
- A fact checker checks *every statement* in the article from at
least 2 reliable sources and documents all of them on a newspaper sized sheet where the article text is in the middle of the sheet and the rest contains the references, annotations, recommended changes. All this material is kept for later editors. (Forward to 27:00 in the MP3).
Excellent. Where do I sign up?
-- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax