http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/04/wikimania-omission-and-accuracy/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/04/wikimania-omission-and-accuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-50317 Danny Yee Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:14:22 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=923#comment-50317 If you're interested in underrepresentation in Wikipedia, you should (if you haven't already) check out the Countering Systematic Bias wikiproject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias If you’re interested in underrepresentation in Wikipedia, you should (if you haven’t already) check out the Countering Systematic Bias wikiproject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/04/wikimania-omission-and-accuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-49864 Wikimania: Omission and Accuracy? Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:44:19 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=923#comment-49864 [...] Giles mentions that there are other questions the study didn’t ask. Should EB be used as the benchmark for checking Wikipedia, but lots of the things Nature people wanted to study weren’t in EB. How do we compare omissions - what’s missing in Wikipedia versus in EB? How important is timeliness? Is EB more likely to be stale because it can’t change as quickly? (This wasn’t a major factor in the 42 article comparison.) And would a future study evaluate style and clarity? (Giles says that several reviewers found the Wikipedia articles difficult to read due to stylistic decisions.) Source: Wikimania: Omission and Accuracy? - Geekery [Feed] [...] [...] Giles mentions that there are other questions the study didn’t ask. Should EB be used as the benchmark for checking Wikipedia, but lots of the things Nature people wanted to study weren’t in EB. How do we compare omissions – what’s missing in Wikipedia versus in EB? How important is timeliness? Is EB more likely to be stale because it can’t change as quickly? (This wasn’t a major factor in the 42 article comparison.) And would a future study evaluate style and clarity? (Giles says that several reviewers found the Wikipedia articles difficult to read due to stylistic decisions.) Source: Wikimania: Omission and Accuracy? - Geekery [Feed] [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/08/04/wikimania-omission-and-accuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-49853 Wikimania: Omission and Accuracy? Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:55:42 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=923#comment-49853 [...] Giles mentions that there are other questions the study didn’t ask. Should EB be used as the benchmark for checking Wikipedia, but lots of the things Nature people wanted to study weren’t in EB. How do we compare omissions - what’s missing in Wikipedia versus in EB? How important is timeliness? Is EB more likely to be stale because it can’t change as quickly? (This wasn’t a major factor in the 42 article comparison.) And would a future study evaluate style and clarity? (Giles says that several reviewers found the Wikipedia articles difficult to read due to stylistic decisions.) Source: Wikimania: Omission and Accuracy? - Off Topic [Feed] [...] [...] Giles mentions that there are other questions the study didn’t ask. Should EB be used as the benchmark for checking Wikipedia, but lots of the things Nature people wanted to study weren’t in EB. How do we compare omissions – what’s missing in Wikipedia versus in EB? How important is timeliness? Is EB more likely to be stale because it can’t change as quickly? (This wasn’t a major factor in the 42 article comparison.) And would a future study evaluate style and clarity? (Giles says that several reviewers found the Wikipedia articles difficult to read due to stylistic decisions.) Source: Wikimania: Omission and Accuracy? - Off Topic [Feed] [...]

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