[WikiEN-l] "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

[James Alexander]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 16:49, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> > Indeed. Why *are* the skeptical geeks now on Reddit and not Wikipedia?
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> 26 minutes? I'm trying to imagine how much the angry inclusionists would
> be soiling my talk page with accusations of BITEyness if I had IAR deleted
> this page after just 26 minutes. ;-)
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> The question also presumes that Wikipedians are not also Redditors.
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I think this is important. The more and more I look at Reddit the more I
realize that not only are they "very similar" to Wikipedians they ARE
Wikipedians. In fact recently I've started wondering if a Reddit post may
be an easier way to reach Wikipedians then a watchlist post or central
notice ;)



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