[Wikipedia-l] Is there any validation of Wikipedia information?

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Tue May 24 22:31:20 UTC 2005


On 5/24/05, Ken Dietz <beckfield1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I can see from all the email threads that this is a hot topic, and I don't mean to add to it.  But I am wondering if there is any effort put in to verifying the accuracy of public-submitted articles.

Every reader is verifying our content every time they read some choose
to make their verification useful by amending any errors, others make
the verification useful by slamming us publicly (which causes the
error to be fixed instantly), and a few others keep their results to
themselves. :)



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