You must be filtering my messages, too! <g>
FAIR WARNING:
Wikipedia, like Vortex, has its own culture, and exists as a fairly well-defined community along with their own written and unwritten rules.
The Wiki cold fusion page appears to be run by people who are for the most part, very different from the people here on V.
The Wikians pride themselves on representing mainstream science, and not representing "fringe" POV (points of views), even though "fringe" POVs just might happen to be far more knowledgeable and accurate.
It might APPEAR as though one can just "jump in" and make a correction on the "honor system" (for example, correcting the note about "no excess heat") but prepared - many of the Wiki veterans won't think twice about immediately erasing your contribution and asking questions later.
I think it would be great if more Vortexians contributed to the CF Wiki, but you should just know what you are up against. If you make any updates, be sure to add a title comment that summarizes your change. Make use of the "Discussion" page - it's quite helpful.
And don't be too shocked at the level of ignorance reflected on the page. I had a run-in a while back with one of the Wiki-ops - he thought he was so smart about cold fusion because he was a plasma fusion grad student at Columbia.
Steve
At 09:56 AM 3/2/2005 -0500, you wrote:
John Steck wrote:
You must be filtering my messages... 8^)
No, I was aware of that. The URL I listed is an article in Wired magazine about Wikipedia.
I have been aware of their cold fusion article for some time, because it has a link to LENR-CANR.org, and I see people visiting from it from time to time.
The cold fusion article is not good. It needs extensive revisions. For example, it says:
"Energy source vs power store
While the output power is higher than the input power during the power burst, the power balance over the whole experiment does not show significant imbalances. Since the mechanism under the power burst is not known, one cannot say whether energy is really produced, or simply stored during the early stages of the experiment (loading of deuterium in the Palladium cathode) for later release during the power burst."
As the readers here surely realize, this is nonsense.
- Jed
