[okfn-discuss] effort to improve "open science" article on Wikipedia... also see citizendium

Sat Sep 14 02:33:39 UTC 2013

"See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability"

Yes they say so, but there are plenty of entries on wikipedia that don't follow those rules, and a wikipedia editor wrote to me and said articles only follow the rules as long as the wikipedia editors notice. 

Here is another problem with wikipedia
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/22/147261659/gauging-the-reliability-of-facts-on-wikipedia
basically they say that stuff goes on wikipedia because everyone says so, not because it is right.

Also,
 the assertion that wikipedia is high quality is often based on a 2005 
study saying it was just as accurate (or just as inaccurate) as encyc 
brit. But that study may have been fatally flawed, says bbc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4840340.stm
so we can dispense with that assertion that wikipedia is high quality.

Gene

Gene
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