Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-17 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/16/11 10:35 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: Nice to know we are as accurate and more up-to-date than the competition. I'd love to see further work done on the 2% of information where we currently differ from the textbooks, hopefully most of that will just be that the textbooks are out of date.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-17 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Sep 16, 2011 6:35 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: It is difficult to balance the needs of the general public, which reads more at a 5th grade level than a 9th grade level, with the need to present comprehensive information that would be of use to an oncologist. If we

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-17 Thread Fred Bauder
On Sep 16, 2011 6:35 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: It is difficult to balance the needs of the general public, which reads more at a 5th grade level than a 9th grade level, with the need to present comprehensive information that would be of use to an oncologist. If we

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-17 Thread WereSpielChequers
There is also the idea that the lead should be written for a more general audience than the rest of the article. I don't know if our cancer articles follow that style, but I find that in many articles in subjects where I'm an ignoramus I can grasp the lead but get lost if I try to finish the page.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-17 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 09/17/11 5:48 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: On Sep 16, 2011 6:35 PM, Fred Bauderfredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: It is difficult to balance the needs of the general public, which reads more at a 5th grade level than a 9th grade level, with the need to present comprehensive information that would be

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-16 Thread Charles Matthews
On 16/09/2011 03:26, Tony Sidaway wrote: It appears that a study by a team at the Medical School at Thomas Jefferson University has found Wikipedia's cancer information to be very accurate and updated more frequently than other sources. Compared to professional sources such as PDQ, however,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-16 Thread Fred Bauder
On 16/09/2011 03:26, Tony Sidaway wrote: It appears that a study by a team at the Medical School at Thomas Jefferson University has found Wikipedia's cancer information to be very accurate and updated more frequently than other sources. Compared to professional sources such as PDQ,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-16 Thread WereSpielChequers
Nice to know we are as accurate and more up-to-date than the competition. I'd love to see further work done on the 2% of information where we currently differ from the textbooks, hopefully most of that will just be that the textbooks are out of date. But it would be good to have that confirmed and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-16 Thread Fred Bauder
Nice to know we are as accurate and more up-to-date than the competition. I'd love to see further work done on the 2% of information where we currently differ from the textbooks, hopefully most of that will just be that the textbooks are out of date. But it would be good to have that