Considering the barriers to entry, growing thicket of policies, organized group harassment, and open hostility on the English Wikipedia, I'm not sure we can even call it "the encyclopedia anyone can edit" anymore. So I'd say fact-checked is a more accurate and relevant claim these days.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Anthony Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > I just googled “wikipedia” and the first result was a Google ad linking to > wikipedia.org.[1] It calls Wikipedia the fact-checked encyclopedia. We used > to call it the encyclopedia anyone can edit. The latter seems more honest > than this new formulation which to me implies a degree of reliability and > oversight I'm not sure we can ethically assert. I missed the discussion > about this new self-description. Did it happen on meta? Is anyone else > uncomfortabe with this? > -- > Anthony Cole > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
