[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: Encarta goes wiki - sort of...

Fri Apr 15 12:51:02 UTC 2005

"Andrew Lih" <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote in 
message news:2ed171fb05041420024e2114eb at mail.gmail.com...
> FYI, something I just found on the Encarta Feedback FAQ, that might be
> of interest:
>
>---
> How are my suggested edits researched?
>
> Graduate students at the University of Washington Information School
> are fact-checking all proposed changes to Encarta. They are trained in
> research and passionate about corroborating facts. Stay tuned for
> possible plans to expand our pool of researchers to the Encarta
> community.

Makes you wonder where *they* do their research.
-- 
Phil
Suddenly struck by the possible delicious irony of Encarta's checkers using 
Wikipedia...yeah, unlikely, I know, but we can dream about it ;-)