Why not referee the articles ourselves? There is a [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check ] Fact and reference check project up to cross reference article facts.
The corner stone of the project is a tab system to enclose facts and autogenerates the qutation below. Then people can cross reference the quoted fact with multiple sources, there is an example here [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Re... ] that is using ad hoc comment tabs (and doesnt auto generate).
All that needs to be done is to incorporate a tab sytem, perhaps ?? or >>, and have it autogenerate the quote. There are other features that could be added (super scripts, hiding the references, hiding the actual tabs when editing the article) but those can be programmed in later I guess.
Good day,
Shaun MacPherson
--- David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
On 09/10/04 07:42, Charles Matthews wrote:
A) There is an argument that _someone else_ can do
this - take selected WP
articles, get them refereed, post them on a web
site. WP lays the golden
eggs.
Yes. It's something for someone else to do somewhere.
I had a job interview recently where I was asked about Wikipedia - it's mentioned at the end of my CV under 'interests'. So I had to give a one-liner on Wikipedia - "a web page that anyone can edit, with version control ... amazed it works as well as it does ... not up to life or death, but up to pub quiz level [thanks to Jimbo for that one, at the recent UK talks!] ... technical articles are usually very good ..." I think I might have recruited one of the interviewers ;-) I did add: "A review process is being put together."
C) What happens to 'be bold' if people's
qualifications to edit are an
issue?
This is why we have to come up with a sane review process that lets the wiki do the work.
D) You are not going to get top academics
interested.
Not with what we have now. And think of the reactions of, e.g., many of wikien-l to academics such as user:172, who does just happen to be very knowledgeable and good at what he does as well as unimpeachably qualified.
- d.
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