The article cited is a tertiary source (like Wikipedia), and so is "as astonishingly bad"
The underlying research studies [ref#1], [ref#2] claim "Researchers found that a relatively small number of editors have a major influence on the site." "As editors interact with one another and their opinions shift, higher 'p' makes opinions move more quickly toward those expressed by Wikipedia." "a persisting inequality of influence—with a small number of super-editors controlling the form of many articles. The model results imply that editing inequality is increasing with time, with fewer editors gaining an ever more dominant role." So surely these claims are worthy of discussion on this list ? if anybody cares Toby [ref#1] http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/8 [ref#2] http://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-is-basically-a-corporate-bureaucracy-accordi-1746955234 On 4/30/16, Oliver Keyes <ironho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm honestly not sure what this thread is meant to achieve. > > Might I suggest that if you object to the reporting you contact the author, > rather than drag their work in a largely-unknown internal mailing list? > It's likely to be more productive. > > On Friday, 29 April 2016, Benjamin Lees <emufarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Stephen Philbrick >> <stephen.w.philbr...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: >> > and it is astonishing how bad it is. >> >> If you're astonished, then I'm afraid you haven't read enough news >> articles about Wikipedia yet. :-( >> >> P.S. MAYBE IT'S TIME WE REEVALUATED OUR STANCE ON ALLCAPS. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> >> ?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
