Lawrence Nyveen wrote:
My job is to fact-check the article before it goes into the magazine, and to do that, I would like to talk with some Wikipedia contributors.
Hi Laurie,
I tried to focus on the facts, here are suggestions for correction:
*Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) has become
s/wikipedia.com/wikipedia.org/
*With over 1.3 million articles
s/1.3/1.7/ according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm
*dwarfs the Encyclopedia Britannica
s/Encyclopedia/Encyclopædia/
*Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia
s/Encyclopedia/Encyclopædia/
*Two days after his critique appeared
s/Two days after/The same day/ according to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Hamilton&diff=747715...
*Over thirty thousand people have written or edited articles so far
Over 50 thousand accounts have been registered. The amount of individual people who edited (whithout having to log in) is assumed to be higher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm
*While an old-style encyclopedia has a minimum standard of grammar, readability and fact-checking, Wikipedia has none
Having standards is different from obeying them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean_Tsunami
This is a redirect. The proper address is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake