2009/4/3 geni <[email protected]>: > 2009/4/3 David Gerard <[email protected]>:
>> http://lisagoldresearch.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/im-shocked-to-discover-theres-gambling-in-this-casino/ > We know this. It's pretty much the reaction of journalists when told > to stop useing wikipedia. Well, a journalist's job is pretty much to turn good but unreliable sources into something useful. So *if* they keep their journalistic wits about them they're fine. I assume all journalists use Wikipedia, so the fact that journalists getting caught out using it sloppily is reportable news itself is heartening. > Looking at the actual report the treasure hunt concept seems > interesting if the exact opposite of something I sometimes do with > wikipedia (find a random slightly obscure source then use it to add > info to appropriate wikipedia articles). Pretty much. See a fact or article, it triggers your Wikipedia Sense, you go to the article ... and someone got there already. (I scored adding the death of Encarta! w00t!) - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
