Hoi,
I am involved in a project where protein and chemical information is of
relevance. I disagree strongly that information on proteins is static. I
also doubt that we have the capacity to ensure that the information is
correct. When you are going to allow for this information how will you
ensure that there will be no original research in there ?
I wish I felt as comfortable about these types of information in Wikipedia..
When people believe this information to be true and base there actions on
it, what does this do to our liability.. In the presentation of professor
Bill Wedemeyer <http://wm08reg.wikimedia.org/schedule/speakers/51.en.html>at
Wikimania this idea was considered and rejected. He is with me of the
opinion that this is best left to specialist databases and that a specific
subset of proteins may be of interest, I hope his presentation will be
online soon.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Ting Chen <Wing.Philopp(a)gmx.de> wrote:
I couldn't
agree more. My major complaint to mass creation of articles by
bots is the simple problem of maintainability.
I personnally don't think that most of articles need to be intensively
maintained. Vandals tend to attack articles that are already hot, and these
articles are watched carefully already. Vandals the other sort, who launch
mass attack indiscriminally are also relatively easy to be detected and
handled.
I believe most of the say bot created gene oder molecule articles would
simply stay there, much of them would probably no more be touched. They
don't need maintainance.
But if they have content and information, I feel comfortable if they are
there. It often happens that I read about something in a magazine like
Scientific American, I would look in Wikipedia after that something to get
more information, and often I would then follow the links there to read
more.
Assuming the English Wikipedia has (more or less)
a few thousand
dedicated contributors (let's say 3500), that approximates to about
705 articles per person. Now, balloon that number up to 4 million
articles, and you now have 1142 articles per person.
If we reverse this logic, we must put up a policy, that if our dedicated
contributors doesn't increase, we must at some point stopp allow people
create new articles, because we cannot monitor them all. Personnally I
dislike the ideal that my job on Wikipedia is to monitor articles.
Ting
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