Very interesting! Thank you for sharing! On Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 1:54 PM Avery Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for your own fact-checking. Not all of those publications are > considered "reliable sources" by Wikipedia. It will be interesting to see > if any of them prints a retraction, or if this gets added to her article as > a "controversy". > > For anyone who is interested, the Wikipedia policy on biographies of living > persons does have a section on "Dealing with articles about yourself > < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Dealing_with_articles_about_yourself > > > ". > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Dealing_with_articles_about_yourself > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 1:08 PM Alexandre Hocquet < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Education listers, > > > > As a historian of science in higher education, I have been developping a > > course focusing on Wikipedia in recent years, and some may have heard of > > the WikiMOOC I presented at Wikimania MOntreal (though I only played a > > modest role in the WikiMOOC saga) > > > > My course is pedagocally relying on anecdotes that say much about > > Wikipedia principles, Wikipedia comunity and how Wikipedia is regarded. > > > > I am today very happy that my first anecdote in English has been > > published. It's about OLivia Colman's birthdate and how the press likes > > to ridicule Wikipedia, yet fact checking is actually done by Wikipedians > > instead of journalists, so I can't resist to self promote it here: > > > > > > > https://theconversation.com/no-wikipedia-didnt-get-actress-olivia-colmans-birthdate-wrong-111848 > > > > Comments welcome > > -- > > *********************************************** > > Alexandre Hocquet > > > > Université de Lorraine & Archives Henri Poincaré > > [email protected] > > http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet > > *********************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Education mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
