On 07/09/06, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/7/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Guettarda wrote:
> > On 9/7/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Erik Moeller wrote:
> >>> It would be nice to get some
evolutionary biologists to review our
> >> It would also be nice to get some
creationists to review our entries on
> > There is constant "creationist
review" of these articles; new people
> Oh right, so the whole thing's an
astroturfing campaign.
Sorry, I don't follow what you're saying
I don't know that it's so much [[astroturfing]] as the typical
activist call to arms: POV activist sees carefully referenced
as-neutral-as-reasonably-achievable Wikipedia article, gets upset,
posts to list or blog about opposite-POV bias. That this one is on the
Discovery Institute's news blog is a little more corporate affiliated,
but it's not covert or done by deception. (Any more than anything the
DI does is.)
Usually what happens is: there's an issue, the activists are called to
Wikipedia, and ... being activists, i.e. sincere people working to
make the world better, they often like the idea of Wikipedia and try
to work with it properly. So we get new editors and better articles.
Win-win.
*Maybe* this will happen in this case :-)
- d.