[Foundation-l] Closer look at Nature's results

[Scott Keir]

On Thursday, December 15, 2005, at 08:03  pm, 
foundation-l-request at 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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