Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC: UK politicians' Wikipedia worries
2009/3/6 Peter Cohen : > In-Reply-To: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm >> >> A decent article, all told. One mistake (it's not just admins that >> revert vandalism) and one misleading statement (the group of editors >> that will flag revisions will be extremely large, which isn't made >> clear). There is a comments form at the bottom, I will point out >> these mistakes. > > On the former. The paragraph reads: > > "Obviously false, malicious or biased material like this is normally > removed within minutes by other contributors or Wikipedia's team of > volunteer administrators, who work round-the-clock to try and improve its > credibility as a source of information and its commitment to balance and > consensus." > > So it doesn't say just admins. It did, they fixed it in response to my comment. (Within about 20 minutes.) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC: UK politicians' Wikipedia worries
In-Reply-To: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm > > A decent article, all told. One mistake (it's not just admins that > revert vandalism) and one misleading statement (the group of editors > that will flag revisions will be extremely large, which isn't made > clear). There is a comments form at the bottom, I will point out > these mistakes. On the former. The paragraph reads: "Obviously false, malicious or biased material like this is normally removed within minutes by other contributors or Wikipedia's team of volunteer administrators, who work round-the-clock to try and improve its credibility as a source of information and its commitment to balance and consensus." So it doesn't say just admins. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
[Wikimediauk-l] BBC: UK politicians' Wikipedia worries
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm A decent article, all told. One mistake (it's not just admins that revert vandalism) and one misleading statement (the group of editors that will flag revisions will be extremely large, which isn't made clear). There is a comments form at the bottom, I will point out these mistakes. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
