Walter Vermeir wrote:
Now there is no system to indicate that the
information in a article
is verified. And also none to make sure that correct, verified
information is not changed at some point.
Right, that's why I had this idea (or stole it from Matthias Schindler
and the German community, it seems! Great minds think alike!) as
being in conjunction with whatever we work out as an approval process
for a "1.0" stable release.
We've known for a long time that while the average quality of
wikipedia articles is very high, and the wide-open editing process is
integral to that, there is also a need for something we can offer to
people that meets a specific test of reliability for _all_ articles in
the stable set, not just "on average".
But I totally agree with you -- until we have a process whereby facts
that are checked stay checked :-), big sessions of fact checking and
copy editing aren't really going to be so useful.
--Jimbo