geni wrote: >On 4 November 2011 14:24, Tony Sidaway <[email protected]> wrote: >> '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."' > > 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...
Well, sure, but "in fairness" to what? I bet there are plenty of fields (probably a majority) where there are various issues with the textbooks, where the best practitioners aren't interested in writing for them, where one commercial entity or another is trying to exert a stranglehold, etc., etc... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
