Re: [Foundation-l] Quality metric : penetration and efficacy of corrections

Hoi, There are two parts to this; - You will never be able to prevent such things from happening. In this instance the result was benign and the press is able to spell our name correctly - There are people REALLY eager to make sure that facts about subjects they care about is exactly right. As a matter of fact I am at the moment in New York where the Concept Web Alliance will have its inaugural meeting. They are at the moment very much in the bio medical domain. This means things like diseases proteins and stuff. They are looking into what they could do for their domain. Now this is way more relevant then citations of a composer and musician like Mr Jarre. When people get the information about diseases wrong, they may end up having to decide who they believe their doctor or Wikipedia.. One of the things being considered is using a staging area for articles that could go into Wikipedia and experiment how these articles would look best. This is obviously for new information but it could be extended to updates to Wikipedia content. The coordination of such a thing and the question how to deal with the amount of new articles that this can generate is an issue. The current thinking is that this would work when people, scientists adopt the subjects that matter to them most and assess the changes made regularly for the veracity of the information provided. Key would be that the information is correct not necessaraly complete. Thanks, Gerard 2009/5/7 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>