Re:The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia
by Angostura on Thursday November 24, 2011 @08:32AM
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... and what happens when you attempt to correct the Wikipedia articles?
Re:The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia
by vacri on Friday November 25, 2011 @03:37AM
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Fair enough, but apart from your story all the others I've heard strongly complain about inaccuracy have been about subjective topics.
Still, if it's causing that much trouble in your community, why not fix the articles? Rather than spend time making fun of it, why not spend time fixing it - which is a double-barreled solution: not only do you lose the incorrect links, but people not associated with your group benefit from more correct advice.
Academic articles maybe, other articles, not so much. I run a website / forum in a niche area of animal husbandry, and one part of the site links to useful descriptions / information on different breeds. We've had no choice but to ban links to Wikipedia articles on individual breeds because they are simply factually incorrect, to the extent that even pre-teen site members find them funny and point out errors on our forums. Seriously, we have 10 year olds on our forums linking to Wikipedia articles and making fun of them - they really are that full of nonsense.