Steve Block wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
The Renaissance Wikipedian who is not associated
with a university has
to make do with what he can find. If all he can find is internet
material it will shape and limit his perceptions. Fact checking should
be one of our jobs, but doing that effectively depends on having access
to information.
I have been meaning to ask this. Has it ever been explored that the
Foundation look at getting some subscriptions to archives and the like
and allowing a reference team access to those subscriptions to do some
fact checking?
I would be inclined to hold off on any kind of organized fact checking
until the stable version issued is sorted out. That way we would have a
way of recording which facts have been checked and which have not, and
how much.
Your idea is constructive but I think it only scratches the surface of
the challenge. A lot of the really useful and important material is
still on paper. How do we choose the "reference team"? It would need
to be big enough to handle what is already a massive job.
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