Hi there Alexandre, Thanks for sharing. I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of your source for the line: *"**The major part of them come from representatives of actresses seeking to remove from the encyclopedia the (true) birthdate of their clients."*
Many thanks! Sara On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 04:54, Alexandre Hocquet < [email protected]> wrote: > On 16/02/2019 21:30, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > > Dear Paulo, > > > OTRS can be used to verify and certify any kind of private information, > > not only identity of people. In Wikipedia we generally and usually send > > people to OTRS when they want to prove such kind of thing as their > > birthdate, without having to expose publicly their IDs. As far as I > > know, that's how it works. > > I confess that my knowlege of what is actually and routinely going on in > OTRS is based on indirect (and partial) observation (and I'd like to > know more about it) but I don't see how an example such as ours would > work. What and where would be the cited reference in the article in such > a change ? > > > the quality of > > a source generally degrades with the number of times it is quoted and > > recycled, so that secondary sources would be generally worst, and > > tertiary sources, as paper encyclopedias and newspapers, would generally > > be the worst possible ones. > > Well I believe we disagree on the merits of primary and secondary > sources then. I believe that the virtue of secondary sources lies in its > analysis, which is supposed to be missing in the primary sources, not > its quotation. > > -- > *********************************************** > 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 > -- Dr Sara Thomas Scotland Programme Coordinator, Wikimedia UK 07803 505 172 https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland *Normal office hours are Monday, Tuesday afternoons, and Wednesday-Friday until the end of March 2019.* *Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. (England & Wales), SC048644 (Scotland). Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ <https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gmail&source=g> . Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
