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

[Fred Bauder]

> From: "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
> <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 8:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals with
> content issues.
>
>
>> 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
>
> How would this system correct the obvious error in this article?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_hominem
>
> Which has been there 3 years.

It's a simple error that most proof-readers would find. It looks right at
first glance but is not. It is a type of error.

The obvious solution is to proof-read Wikipedia in a systemic way.

Fred Bauder