From: <> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:53:37 -0400 To: jwales@bomis.com Subject: wikipedia and RFLP
Just a quick note to tell you that you need to have the content of the page dealing with RFLP corrected. One of my students used it as a source and found that RFLP is referred to as a property of DNA (it is a technique) and that the DNA is first usually amplified by pcr - it is NOT usually done in this manner. PLEASE check content - the page is mis-informative.
<name omitted> PhD Assistant Professor of Biology
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Just what part of "edit this page" doesn't he understand? :-)
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Daniel P.B.Smith wrote:
Just what part of "edit this page" doesn't he understand? :-)
It is not obvious to people who are unfamiliar with the system that they can actually edit the page. When they see the "Edit this link" page, the message it brings across goes contrary to what they firmly believe in (namely, that nobody can edit the page just like that) and so they subconsciously filter it out. Even if they consciously think about it, they probably come to the conclusion that clicking on the link will definitely bring up a password prompt or similar.
There isn't much we can do about it other than working on making the way Wikipedia works more known to the general public. That is a slow and gradual process.
Timwi