On 4/10/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
Will the average user be able to find independent information in the search engines, which didn't come from Wikpedia?
It's already tricky sometimes. Specifying "-wikipedia" is the only way I know to do that, and that's obviously useless if you're looking for information *about* Wikipedia. For example, how would you find sources about the Seigenthaler controversy that wasn't published in WP itself?
Steve
On 4/10/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/10/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
Will the average user be able to find independent information in the search engines, which didn't come from Wikpedia?
It's already tricky sometimes. Specifying "-wikipedia" is the only way I know to do that, and that's obviously useless if you're looking for information *about* Wikipedia. For example, how would you find sources about the Seigenthaler controversy that wasn't published in WP itself?
Steve
It's for exactly this problem that I started this off a while back, but it hasn't become widely-known yet, it seems: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirror_filter
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nice!
Steve
On 4/11/06, Jerome Jamnicky jeronimwp@gmail.com wrote:
It's for exactly this problem that I started this off a while back, but it hasn't become widely-known yet, it seems: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirror_filter