Both slogans/claims are not entirely wrong, but also both are highly misleading, and should not be used. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Cole Sent: 15 April 2018 16:54 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia
To be clear, I’m not arguing we should resurrect “anyone can edit”. I’m wondering if this new slogan doesn’t run the risk of misleading readers wrt Wikipedia’s reliability.
On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 at 10:21 pm, Leigh Thelmadatter osamadre@hotmail.com wrote:
Not just English Wikipedia. All of the projects are hostile to "outsiders" Those not in English might even be worse for several reasons
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------ Original message------ From: Robert Fernandez Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2018 9:17 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List; Cc: Subject:Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia
Considering the barriers to entry, growing thicket of policies, organized group harassment, and open hostility on the English Wikipedia, I'm not sure we can even call it "the encyclopedia anyone can edit" anymore. So I'd say fact-checked is a more accurate and relevant claim these days.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
I just googled “wikipedia” and the first result was a Google ad linking
to
wikipedia.org.[1] It calls Wikipedia the fact-checked encyclopedia. We
used
to call it the encyclopedia anyone can edit. The latter seems more honest than this new formulation which to me implies a degree of reliability and oversight I'm not sure we can ethically assert. I missed the discussion about this new self-description. Did it happen on meta? Is anyone else uncomfortabe with this? -- Anthony Cole _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
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