[Wikipedia-l] A Solution to Larry Sanger's Criticisms - Project Has Been Around For A While

Tue Jan 4 04:43:45 UTC 2005

Sorry I forgot to invite you all to use
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check)
as an area for us to discuss this issue.  The
Wikitechs will beat you there now ;).

Shaun MacPherson

 --- Shaun MacPherson <shaun_macpherson2001 at yahoo.ca>
wrote: 
> Larry Sanger believes that the solution to make
> Wikipedia more credible are with experts.  You can
> see
> a good article descriping his criticisms here (
>
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/03/144207&tid=95&tid=1
> ) posted on Jan 3, 2004.
> 
> I think the easiest way to make Wikipedia more
> credible is with a Fact and Reference Project, which
> the community has been developing over a period of
> more than a few months now: (
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check
> ).
> 
> The thing holding this project back, and ultimately
> Wikipedia from sheading the skin of being
> 'noncredible' is the lack of intelligent foot/end
> notes.  A way to format an article with
> autonumbering
> endnotes for crossreferencing is lacking.  I am sure
> with this feature programmed in this project can be
> on
> its way to cross referencing all facts on Wikipedia.
> 
> You can see some examples offoot/endnote formatting
> template here.  JesseW has put much effort into
> trying
> to create a formating guide here (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes )
> and
> another guide here (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources
> ).
>  Examples are here (
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check/Example_2/
> ).
> 
> How credible will Wikipedia be if each fact is
> crossreferenced with 5, 10, 20 external sources like
> academic journals, encyclopedias, books? Very.
> 
> 
> 
>
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