The same article was just forwarded to me by a US-based academic who's been very sceptical of Wikipedia. Felt a tinge of pride.
Sent her back the Open Medicine peer-reviewed Wikipedia article on dengue fever, posted to this list earlier. Congratulations, Bishakha On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Keegan Peterzell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:07 AM, svetlana <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > MZMcBride wrote: > > > http://nyti.ms/1rHy4fK > > > > > > Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on > Ebola > > > Noam Cohen > > > October 26, 2014 > > > The New York Times > > > > > > Neat! (And a bit terrifying.) > > > > > > MZMcBride > > > > Should be fun to remember -- in addition to the poorly honored WP:NOTNEWS > > -- other language sisters, and do some proper statistics, as EN.WP ≠ > WP... > > > I get your point, Svetlana, but WP:NOTNEWS is honored in the article: > > " > Others wonder why it includes so little discussion about the current > outbreak. It is covered in a separate article. > " > > The Times piece highlights the article about the disease itself. > > As for > EN.WP ≠ WP > , the article is aimed at English-language audience, so it's natural that > it's just "Wikipedia." I rarely see a press headline that denotes the > language edition of Wikipedia if the article deals with the Wikipedia in > the language of the piece. > > All-in-all, good work by [English Wikipedia] Wikiproject Medicine as usual > :) > -- > ~Keegan > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan > > This is my personal email address. Everything sent from this email address > is in a personal capacity. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
