On 28/02/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/28/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia would do well to be less paranoid about external perception.
Yeah, a lot of our meta-comments like "Please expand this section" seem to be getting stripped out, and tags are being pushed onto the talk page, for fear of readers realising that our encyclopaedia is still a work in progress.
This is why in press relations I try to turn "Wikipedia is not reliable" into a positive. It's not fact-checked sentence by sentence like Britannica, but it's good and useful - just read critically. That is, educating the readers.
(Most of the kerfuffle over students referencing Wikipedia is because the students are doing something stupid by doing so.)
- d.