Comments on: More on Wikipedia Reliability – Nature Comparison

By: Simon C

Simon C — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:35:37 +0000

They say that breaking up is hard to do. Neil Sedaka at http://www.geocities.com/merrystar3/allysongs/BreakingUpIsHardToDo.htm

By: Simon Fodden

Simon Fodden — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 01:02:55 +0000

Keeping up is hard to do. Wasn't that a song once?

Especially when your laptop machine is pop-flooded and goes in for repairs, as Ted's was.

I wonder if we're getting to the stage where it makes sense to "search first and post later."

By: Simon C

Simon C — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:03:08 +0000

Ah yes, Ted, but Slaw.ca had that reference tagged the day after publication.
See:
Footnote to Wikipedia Reliability Debate

Thursday, December 15th, 2005
One of our open-source savvy articling students, Jon Smithen, just drew my attention to a piece in this week's Nature which strongly suggests that Wikipedia's integrity in the scientific field approaches that of the conventional encyclopaedias. My experience on the legal side endorsed that view too.

So this really is old news to slaw.ca readers.