[WikiEN-l] The Statistical Decline of the English Wikipedia Community

[Matthew Brown]

On 10/13/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> Working against original research is hard in a generalist article.
> It's really easy to write one from a personal perspective, but a lot
> harder to pin everything down.

To clarify: I'm using 'original research' in Wikipedia's sense here,
not the actual logical one.  The conclusions drawn in a general
article are unlikely to be original.  They are, however, likely to be
based on the beliefs of the author and informed by the general
consensus in the field, which can be awfully hard to pin down in good
references.

-Matt