On Thursday, December 15, 2005, at 08:03 pm, foundation-l-request@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think that the "Nature" article was largely sympathetic. Our best response would be to review the articles surveyed to make whatever corrections are needed, or even to make corrections that they failed to notice as well.
The Nature article is very sympathetic - and there's an editorial in the current issue of Nature encouraging scientists to contribute to Wikipedia. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/index.html#Editorial "Wiki's wild world p890 Researchers should read Wikipedia cautiously and amend it enthusiastically. doi:10.1038/438890a"
(apologies if this has been discussed already - I just get the digest, so may be a bit behind)
Scott
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It would be great if we could leverage this to get groups of academics to adopt small parts of Wikipedia -- without getting turned off by disputes. Perhaps drawing on the experiences of academics in our midst to help them get their bearings; or offering help with synchronizing local wiki-shards with WP proper.
SJ
On 12/15/05, Scott Keir scottkeir@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Thursday, December 15, 2005, at 08:03 pm, foundation-l-request@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think that the "Nature" article was largely sympathetic. Our best response would be to review the articles surveyed to make whatever corrections are needed, or even to make corrections that they failed to notice as well.
The Nature article is very sympathetic - and there's an editorial in the current issue of Nature encouraging scientists to contribute to Wikipedia. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/index.html#Editorial "Wiki's wild world p890 Researchers should read Wikipedia cautiously and amend it enthusiastically. doi:10.1038/438890a"
(apologies if this has been discussed already - I just get the digest, so may be a bit behind)
Scott
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