[Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals with content issues.

Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod at mccme.ru
Sun Aug 29 15:45:36 UTC 2010


On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:38:34 +0100, "Peter Damian"
<peter.damian at btinternet.com> wrote:
> The problem is that until someone sits up and notices the serious errors
> that 
> are propagated through Wikipedia (and which are now becoming part of the

> folk wisdom of the internet), no one will be bothered. The problem is
that
> no one 
> *knows* there are problems, and so no one can be bothered. I've started
> documenting 
> the problem in a small way, e.g. here
> http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/06/william-of-ockham.html 
> and here http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/06/avicennian-logic.html , but
> this is only 
> in my own area of expertise.
> 
> What is the very smallest thing that could be done, I wonder?
> 
> Peter
> 

These issues have been discussed at length at the Strategy wiki and made
to the five-how year strategic plan. The question is how they would be
implemented now. But it is not really correct that nobody bothers.

Cheers
Yaroslav



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