I'd better say this in English too. As a university researcher and teacher I absolutely love Wikipedia, I use it all the time, and I teach my students how to use it.
I rarely edit on the English site, but I do edit from time to time on the Danish site; sometimes extensively. And yes, those are hours well spent for a researcher and teacher.
@SuneAuken I find it interesting how my opinion of Wikipedia has more or less completely reversed over time. I agree. I think it's an amazing resource.
@Ruth_Mottram@SuneAuken The controversy level of the subject matters a lot too. It's been good on some low stakes fact orientated subjects for years and continues to be bad for others.
This is the Wikipedia community actually getting it right on a supposedly controversial topic (this will interest you too, Ruth). I think the explanation is that the topic itself, #ClimateChange, isn't actually controversial from a scientific point of view and thus CAN be solved under Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View-principle.
@SuneAuken Your explanation certainly fits. Meanwhile my best example of current inaccuracy (Israel and Palestine) is one where too many people are overconfident in their assessment of their understanding. Not a chance with that 🤷♀️
Ah yes. And even the fact that I'm hesitant to reply to you here, because I know that you and I don't necessarily see eye-to-eye on the topic demonstrates the problem.
@Ruth_Mottram@SuneAuken Some years, I teach my university students how to write & edit on it as part of their coursework, and this really is a super exercise for them to understand how it works, how much to trust it, and how it is produced collaboratively.
Yes, I tutor a course on science communication. One of the most important parts of this is a peer-review exercise, demonstrating how (though imperfect) this process keeps science "honest" and credible.
@SuneAuken@Henrysbridge@martinvermeer@JulietJFall@Ruth_Mottram
If one sees something which one knows to be incorrect on Wikipedia then it is surely one’s duty to get in there and fix, i.e. edit, it. Rather than complaining that Wikipedia is full of incorrect information 🤷♂️
Unless one has their vpn turned on and so Wikipedia won’t let one in to edit it so, of course you’ll come back later. Of course you will 😬😗
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