Saturday August 6, 2022; 12:52 PM EDT
- Occasionally you hear of a group of professionals in one field or another deciding to take some responsibility for the accuracy and usefulness of the Wikipedia pages that address their field of expertise. You might hit upon a page or two that shows the happy results of their work. The specificity, the clarity, the orderly presentation, the documentation, the care to present shades of meaning and to tell about unfolding ideas and pending problems with a sense of the reality of those important processes.#
- We might divide our information sources into two piles. One, where you can see who has taken responsibility for quality, and how well they've done, and the other, where those questions are up in the air at best. We might question ourselves about all the information we consume and any we send out, even in humble social media postings, or blog posts, or letters to the editor, or rss feeds.#