At 00:55 +0000 14/2/06, Scott Keir wrote:
Just in case people on the list haven't seen this:
http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article345103.ece
Wikipedia under the microscope over accuracy The website (pronounced wikee/pee/dee/er) is one of the world's great co-operative ventures, an online encyclopedia compiled by thousands of global users - or is it just another unreliable website full of mistakes, misconceptions and misleading entries? Martin Hickman and Geneviève Roberts investigate an internet phenomenon (with the help of eight experts looking up their areas of expertise) Published: 13 February 2006
Includes Anne Widdecombe on her own entry (9.5 out of 10), Orlando Figes on the 1917 Russian Revolution ("reads like the work of a second-rate undergraduate student. ") and Robert Winston on just about everything...
Scott
Here is my response to Guardian article from last Friday (with a quote from the press department in the body and mind of David Gerard)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1706597,00.html
************* Journalist edits Wikipedia (Guardian, Column Five, 10 February 2006).
Whatever next? The Wikinews website? *************
YMMV,