Both slogans/claims are not entirely wrong, but also both are highly misleading, and
should not be used.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anthony
Cole
Sent: 15 April 2018 16:54
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia
To be clear, I’m not arguing we should resurrect “anyone can edit”. I’m
wondering if this new slogan doesn’t run the risk of misleading readers wrt
Wikipedia’s reliability.
On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 at 10:21 pm, Leigh Thelmadatter <osamadre(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
Not just English Wikipedia. All of the projects are
hostile to "outsiders"
Those not in English might even be worse for several reasons
Enviado desde mi LG de Telcel
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From: Robert Fernandez
Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2018 9:17 AM
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Cc:
Subject:Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia
Considering the barriers to entry, growing thicket of policies,
organized group harassment, and open hostility on the English
Wikipedia, I'm not sure we can even call it "the encyclopedia anyone
can edit" anymore. So I'd say fact-checked is a more accurate and
relevant claim these days.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just googled “wikipedia” and the first result
was a Google ad linking
to
wikipedia.org.[1] It calls Wikipedia the
fact-checked encyclopedia. We
used
to call it the encyclopedia anyone can edit. The
latter seems more honest
than this new formulation which to me implies a degree of reliability and
oversight I'm not sure we can ethically assert. I missed the discussion
about this new self-description. Did it happen on meta? Is anyone else
uncomfortabe with this?
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