On 4 November 2011 14:24, Tony Sidaway <[email protected]> wrote: > Harry Kroto. > > 'Kroto shared his views on what he calls the "GooYouWiki-Revolution" > and spoke highly of Wikipedia as a resource. > "In my field," said Kroto, "it's more reliable than the textbooks."' > > http://www.reflector-online.com/life/wikipedia-not-all-bad-even-sexy-1.2665094
In fairness his field is chemistry which has issues with its textbooks. Most of the best chemists are more interested in publishing in journals rather than text books and all but the most fundamental areas (and Atkins Physical Chemistry has rather a lot of that area locked down) move so fast that books are outdated within a year or so. Throw in the academic publishing sector wishing to push out new editions of their organic and inorganic chemistry books each year and errors in proof reading are also an issue. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
