2008/12/23 Wilhelm Schnotz <wilh...@nixeagle.org>: > I hate to pop into this, but have we thought about the question of > reader access. By this I mean as it currently is with most of our > sources, our readers are able to verify the articles themselves if > they wish to. If we start to use sources that only certain people can > access, that closes off the ability of the average reader to verify > what we write.
We've discussed this before, in a general case, and pretty much dismissed it. Limiting ourselves to easily-accessible sources sounds good in practice, but immediately runs into trouble. We simply can't write articles on most of our subjects to a good and reliable standard without relying heavily on access to print books (which people object to because they're offline) or subscription databases (which people object to because they're not accessible to casual users). (This should be distinguished from, eg, people sourcing things to private archives; in the former case they're accessible by anyone who goes through the right channels, but in the latter they may be literally inaccessible to anyone else...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
