Below is a message I sent to Pierre Carbonnelle and some of the
others who worked on the Wikipedia article, which was destroyed in
mid-December 2007. The plan is to migrate the article to the new
Google encyclopedia "Knol." Some members of this group want to create
new article in a semi-secret fashion, organizing together and then
springing it upon the world. They are afraid that skeptics will
interfere with their access to Knol.
I told them that I never do anything in the dark. Anything I write is
fully open to critique by anyone, including Robert Park. If he wants
to write a paper for LENR-CANR I would be pleased to upload it. If I
write a draft of an encyclopedia article, as soon as I think it is
free of errors, I will upload it here and hand out copies to anyone who asks.
Anyway, I told these people that if they want to work in secret,
please don't tell me about it. It is possible that this secret group
has access to Knol and they are working on a article even as we
speak. If they do that, the rest of us can critique the article once
it comes on line, which would be fine.
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I have not been able to make any contact with Google yet. As far as I
know, the Google "Knol" encyclopedia has not been launched yet,
either, so perhaps it is too early to expect a response.
It should not take us long to assemble an article if Google gives us
access. I expect we all agree on what the main points it should
include. We can iron out the details in a week or two after the core
article is written. So I think we should wait until they respond.
The latest version of the Wikipedia article does not have a single
reference to LENR-CANR.org or to Steve's site. That's annoying! There
is nothing I can do about it. The article is locked. Even if I could
add links, the skeptics will only erase them. The lunatics are
running the asylum. It is hopeless.
If there was someone else in the ad-hoc group that discussed
Wikipedia in mid-December, please feel free to forward this message,
and ask them to contact me. If and when we get access to Knol I want
to be sure all interested parties are informed, and given a chance to
critique the article.
- Jed
