At 03:34 PM 6/19/2007, phoebe ayers wrote:
Hmm. Sounds like a Wikimania workshop to me, and/or a
series of workshops
online. Perhaps a wider support network being built between those with
access to resources and those without, or some research done into what
editors really *need* to source comprehensively (access? training?
motivation through policy or culture? all of this?) ... The problem is a big
one, with differences and subtleties depending on the article topic and the
language of research, and our sourcing troubles won't be easily solved by
either a "let's delete it all tomorrow" or a "let's let it all sit
around"
approach -- I think it's pretty clear that neither entirely works.
Yes, I have been to workshops like this offered by libraries, and I
was underimpressed. Most of the advice simply did not apply to my
discipline. One of the most important parts of sourcing is figuring
out which sources are good (or, given two source, which is better?),
and that depends a lot on each area.
Chris