[WikiEN-l] Nobel prizewinning chemist: "in my field, Wikipedia is more reliable than textbooks"

[Steve Summit]

geni wrote:
>On 4 November 2011 14:24, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 'Kroto shared his views on what he calls the "GooYouWiki-Revolution"
>> and spoke highly of Wikipedia as a resource.
>> "In my field," said Kroto, "it's more reliable than the textbooks."'
>
> In fairness his field is chemistry which has issues with its
> textbooks. Most of the best chemists are more interested in publishing
> in journals rather than text books...

Well, sure, but "in fairness" to what?  I bet there are plenty of
fields (probably a majority) where there are various issues with
the textbooks, where the best practitioners aren't interested in
writing for them, where one commercial entity or another is
trying to exert a stranglehold, etc., etc...