OT: GR [LWN.net]

OT: GR

Posted Sep 21, 2006 9:19 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (guest, #4654)
In reply to: OT: GR by roelofs
Parent article: WOS4: Quality management in free content

Thanks for correcting (and enlightening) me.
Furthermore, it sounds like a very practical illustration on why, nearly all the time, such writings needs quality review(ers).

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OT: GR

Posted Sep 22, 2006 19:53 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

Good point, but don't forget that "quality" != "expert".

Case in point: I could have written the same correction, but my knowledge of relativity stops roughly at the point where things get interesting (i.e. mathematical).

The "expert bias" problem shouldn't be neglected either. As a somewhat extreme example, if you only allow astrologers to edit the article on astrology, then Wikipedia's much-vaunted neutral PoV is lost -- none of these people will admit that the stuff doesn't work in the first place.