[WikiEN-l] Webypedia - another doomed alternative to Wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 29 August 2010 17:27, Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:51 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Aaron Swartz found that most of the text is written by IPs, with the regulars then formatting the heck out of it.
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>> Like I was saying, that does not match my experience with mathematics
>> articles. I very rarely see significant amounts of content (say, a new
>> paragraph) added by an anonymous user.
>>     
> Yeah, it's eminently plausible it may not work that way on specialist
> topics. And it appears your data bears that out. Data is good ;-)
> Would be interesting to test this for other specialist areas.
>
>   

Mathematics is an a atypical subject area.  Even those who are most 
prolific in their output of wrong opinions will admit that they are 
clueless when it comes to mathematics.

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