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[Andre Engels]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:01 AM, John at Darkstar <vacuum at jeb.no> wrote:
> I've been wondering if we could identify different users somehow, what
> kind of role they had in writing of the article - especially who did the
> research and who did the writing, and what kind of trust (reputation)
> they have.
>
> The academic emphasis is something they brag loudly about, but it seems
> academia more and more uses Wikipedia anyhow. ;) It is also interesting
> how SNL want to be used as a primary source of information, while we
> says no one should use an encyclopedia as a primary source for information.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean about "our minus point number two".

That's the identification of authors. So what I mean is that we could
try to find a way to mention something about the authors (in a more
conspicuous place than the history and without forcing the user to
click a few dozen links to weed out the obvious non-authors) - either
automatically generated, added by the users themselves or a form in
between.


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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com