--- "Daniel P. B. Smith" <wikipedia2006(a)dpbsmith.com> wrote: That might be because we call ourselves "Wikipedia -- the free encyclopedia" ;-) I agree with your main point, though. We could consider making [[Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia]] more prominent. Wikipedia is quite unique as a resource, and it's not immediately intuitive how to make the best use of it. We push lots of editing tutorials at newbies (which is good and proper, as we want to encourage people to edit as much as possible), but it wouldn't hurt to help out the silent, read-only majority as much as we can. -- Matt Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________________ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry

Daniel P. B. Smith wrote: That was seriously one of the best articles I've ever seen written about us. I've shot an email to the author thanking him for doing his research instead of shabbily ommitting and making up stuff to support a particular viewpoint as most other journalists do. I don't think it's negative at all; I find it highlights some of the best and worst parts of Wikipedia and would probably comply with [[WP:NPOV]], if not [[WP:NOR]]. John

There are three other Boston Globe articles. The other one appearing on 12 February, entitled Questions of Fact, is here: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/12/questions_of_… The second part of the main story, Many contributors, common cause, is here: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/13/many_contribu… which includes comments from a number of local (to Boston, MA) Wikipedians. Accompanying today's article is another piece, The idealists, the optimists, and the world they share, which has further comments from WPians: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/02/13/the_idealists… Kind regards Jon The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote: On 2/12/06, John Lee wrote: I think it places too much emphasis on the idea of fighting vandalism, but then so do a lot of editors these days. I wrote the author about the obvious factual error, "On his own, Seigenthaler tracked down the saboteur to a business in Nashville." As if. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre.

G'day Charles, Excellent idea! How are we supposed to concentrate on userboxen and other such Earth-shattering issues when all these idiots keep cropping up and saying "we should be working on the encyclopaedia!" I reckon if we removed the articles from Wikipedia, these people would go away and allow us to continue the betterment of mankind unmolested. -- Mark Gallagher "What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!" - Danger Mouse -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.6/257 - Release Date: 10/02/2006