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[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
What would you achieve by doing that and, what would it mean for our down
stream users ? In my opinion this is not where we want to go at all.
Thanks,
      gerardM

2009/2/26 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
>
> --
> André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
>
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