Hello!
First time post, glad to be here. I would like to announce a new Fact and Reference WikiProject ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check ) and am writing this email to get community input.
This project's goal is very ambitious - having facts in Wikipedia verified by multiple independent sources to make it the most authoritative source of information in the world. Even if this goal is never reached, the project is still useful in having facts referenced will help deflect one of the largest criticisms of Wikipedia - that it is not a reputable source of knowledge.
Any community input is welcome but some questions you might consider commenting is: Do you think its a good idea? Do you have suggestions or recommendations? Do you have a plan of action on how to best fact check wikipedia? All input is welcome, excellent criticisms have already been very helpful.
As well, if you have any knowledge about designing wikimedia that would be very useful. This project and these ideas likely could not be implemented without a programmer contributing his or her time to code an automatic referencing system. Programmers who are interested in helping are very much encouraged to have a look.
It would likely be easiest for people to review your ideas and comments if you write in the project discussion page here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_C... ). If you want to write me personally I welcome your comments (shaun_macpherson2001 [-a-t-] yahoo.ca).
Thanks for your time,
ShaunMacPherson
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Although all articles should be fully referenced at creation and upon any modification they are not. This project promises to remedy that deficiency. I suspect I will not like its effect on some of my more creative edits but I like its general direction.
Fred
From: Shaun MacPherson shaun_macpherson2001@yahoo.ca Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:11:45 -0400 (EDT) To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Community Input for WikiProject - Fact and Reference Check
Hello!
First time post, glad to be here. I would like to announce a new Fact and Reference WikiProject ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check ) and am writing this email to get community input.
This project's goal is very ambitious - having facts in Wikipedia verified by multiple independent sources to make it the most authoritative source of information in the world. Even if this goal is never reached, the project is still useful in having facts referenced will help deflect one of the largest criticisms of Wikipedia - that it is not a reputable source of knowledge.
Any community input is welcome but some questions you might consider commenting is: Do you think its a good idea? Do you have suggestions or recommendations? Do you have a plan of action on how to best fact check wikipedia? All input is welcome, excellent criticisms have already been very helpful.
As well, if you have any knowledge about designing wikimedia that would be very useful. This project and these ideas likely could not be implemented without a programmer contributing his or her time to code an automatic referencing system. Programmers who are interested in helping are very much encouraged to have a look.
It would likely be easiest for people to review your ideas and comments if you write in the project discussion page here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_C... ck ). If you want to write me personally I welcome your comments (shaun_macpherson2001 [-a-t-] yahoo.ca).
Thanks for your time,
ShaunMacPherson
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Shaun MacPherson wrote:
First time post, glad to be here. I would like to announce a new Fact and Reference WikiProject ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check ) and am writing this email to get community input.
My input would be "wait for the validation feature to go live".
It can't hurt to go out searching for more sources and references for articles in the meanwhile, though, can it?
-Matt (User:Morven)
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:38:27 +0100, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Shaun MacPherson wrote:
First time post, glad to be here. I would like to announce a new Fact and Reference WikiProject ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check ) and am writing this email to get community input.
My input would be "wait for the validation feature to go live".
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Matt Brown wrote:
It can't hurt to go out searching for more sources and references for articles in the meanwhile, though, can it?
Certainly not, but I'm just thinking that when the validation feature is live, you guys can better judge how well suited it is for the job, what improvements might be necessary, etc. I said that to prevent new feature requests from proliferating whose purpose would overlap with that of the validation feature.
Timwi
--- Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Shaun MacPherson wrote:
First time post, glad to be here. I would like to announce a new Fact and Reference WikiProject (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check
) and am writing this email to get community
input.
My input would be "wait for the validation feature to go live".
Could you give some more info on this feature (a link perhaps)? We've already generated some interesting feed back and ideas from our chat about it and perhaps could offer some suggestions to the coders who maybe working on this feature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check/... is a draft example of how the referencing system could work (the tabs are normal comment tabs for now).
Thanks for your input,
ShaunMacPherson
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