[lbo-talk] Wikipedia: demographics and prose style (was: Socialim (was: Cheery thought...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Feb 26 10:37:37 PST 2006


Colin Brace wrote:


>There is a lot of Bad Prose on Wikipedia. It may not be the most
>critical problem with the site, but it very pervasive. Did you see
>this piece?
>
>http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_amorality_o.php
>
>This guy was spot on, and his comments were a great embarrassment to
>the Wikipedia community.

He's got a more recent piece at <http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/02/community_and_h.php>. It's pretty damning - and tears apart that Nature article that reportedly claimed that Wikipedia was as good as Britannica. Clearly it's not.

Doug



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