[Wikipedia-l] Why do we not make it clear that Wikipedia is a work in progress?

Gerrit Holl gerrit at nl.linux.org
Tue Dec 6 14:13:29 UTC 2005


Brion Vibber wrote:
> Why is there not a big, fat, clear warning at the top of every article that this
> is a work in progess, has not been formally reviewed, may contain factual
> inaccuracies or vandalism, and *should not* be used for reference without a very
> large grain of salt?

For enwiki, we can discuss this at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Tagline#Work_in_progress
perhaps?

Gerrit.

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