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

[Fred Bauder]

We need to set up a regular mechanism which analyzes and searches for
errors. Please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Error_management

We need to make a science of it, Wikipedia:Error_management

Fred

> Gerard writes: >>The trouble is that attempts to make something that
> lures experts but
> keeps idiots out of their faces have so far failed and/or attracted no
> attention, even from the experts (Citizendium, Scholarpedia). That is,
> they sound like a good idea; but in practice, Wikipedia has so far
> been the least worst system.
>
> True.  But is there not some way of making Wikipedia just a little more
> attractive
> to people who have studied the subject?  I used to propose things like
> credentials
> based on trust earned on Wikipedia (which would require getting trust
> from other
> trusted editors, much like in financial markets).  These all naturally
> got shot down,
> and silly of me to have tried.  But is there not some way of just making
> it a little
> easier?
>
> 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
>
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