[Wikide-l] Artikel in Firstmonday zur Glaubwürdigkeit von Wikipedia

[Mathias Schindler]

FYI: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_11/chesney/


...This short study examines Wikipedia's credibility by asking 258
research staff with a response rate of 21 percent, to read an article
and assess its credibility, the credibility of its author and the
credibility of Wikipedia as a whole. Staff were either given an
article in their own expert domain or a random article. No difference
was found between the two group in terms of their perceived
credibility of Wikipedia or of the articles' authors, but a difference
was found in the credibility of the articles — the experts found
Wikipedia's articles to be more credible than the non–experts....


Aus diesem Text lassen sich mehrere Spins generieren. Der angenehmste
wäre ein "Es ist gut, wikipedia zu untersuchen, mitzuarbeiten und die
Texte kritisch zu betrachten." Natürlich geht auch ein "Wikipedia ist
unter Experten glaubwürdig!!!!111" oder ein "Wikipedia enthält
Millionen Fehler!!!!!1111".