[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia spanks Encarta, Brockhaus

[Erik Moeller]

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> Brockhaus "must concede defeat" to Wikipedia

This is great and should help to combat some of the FUD about Wikipedia  
and wikis in general. Now imagine the result when we have a solid  
community-based peer review mechanism for every article, where every page  
is evaluated in different categories - accuracy, copyright status,  
comprehensiveness, images, neutrality, and so on - and where we can make a  
guarantee that it has passed all these criteria, and that every factual  
claim in the article has a source. Then newspapers, magazines, academics  
and anyone else can cite a specific certified version of a Wikipedia  
article and be sure that it's 1) accurate, 2) not a redirect to goatse.cx.

Let's not get cocky and keep that goal in mind. The road to credibility is  
long and requires constant innovation. The next review might very well  
include an article on [[Wikipedia:Cleanup]] or in [[Category:NPOV  
disputes]]. Unless we can then say, "this is the unstable version - check  
the stable one, which already has 10,000 articles", we're on the defensive  
again.

Regards,

Erik