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

David Gerard fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Tue May 24 22:32:06 UTC 2005


Ken Dietz (beckfield1 at yahoo.com) [050525 08:24]:

> 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.


There is a fact-checking drive on en:, but it's not hugely popular. If we
can encourage referencing as a habit, it should make fact-checking easier.


- d.





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