On 2/10/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:

I have begun an essay at [[Wikipedia:Error]] to consider how the knowledge learned from analysis and prevention of aviation and medical errors might be applied to Wikipedia.

Fred

Interesting. The environments are different enough that the lessons do not directly apply, but the analysis techniques and a lot of the component types of failures noted are going to be common.

I am somewhat familiar with the aviation side of the error and failure analysis.