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
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Journalist edits Wikipedia (Guardian, Column Five, 10 February 2006).
Whatever next? The Wikinews website?
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YMMV,
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