2009/4/3 geni geniice@gmail.com:
2009/4/3 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/im-shocked-to-discover-ther...
We know this. It's pretty much the reaction of journalists when told to stop useing wikipedia.
Well, a journalist's job is pretty much to turn good but unreliable sources into something useful. So *if* they keep their journalistic wits about them they're fine. I assume all journalists use Wikipedia, so the fact that journalists getting caught out using it sloppily is reportable news itself is heartening.
Looking at the actual report the treasure hunt concept seems interesting if the exact opposite of something I sometimes do with wikipedia (find a random slightly obscure source then use it to add info to appropriate wikipedia articles).
Pretty much. See a fact or article, it triggers your Wikipedia Sense, you go to the article ... and someone got there already.
(I scored adding the death of Encarta! w00t!)
- d.