I don’t buy that the power that be don’t want to manipulate Wikipedia because it’s believed to be unreliable. In many cases newspaper journalists these days believe Wikipedia to be reliable enough to use it as a source for some claims with gives you citogenesis. Books like Trust me I’m lying speak more in detail about how you can do the citogenesis dance as a PR person.
Wikipedia does deal with a huge amount of vandalism but succeeds in holding it at bay well enough to have the quality it has.
It’s not that individual journalists don’t trust Wikipedia, but that they know they can’t publish an article in which a key fact comes directly from Wikipedia without any sort of corroboration. I assume, anyway. Perhaps I’m wrong.
I don’t buy that the power that be don’t want to manipulate Wikipedia because it’s believed to be unreliable. In many cases newspaper journalists these days believe Wikipedia to be reliable enough to use it as a source for some claims with gives you citogenesis. Books like Trust me I’m lying speak more in detail about how you can do the citogenesis dance as a PR person.
Wikipedia does deal with a huge amount of vandalism but succeeds in holding it at bay well enough to have the quality it has.
It’s not that individual journalists don’t trust Wikipedia, but that they know they can’t publish an article in which a key fact comes directly from Wikipedia without any sort of corroboration. I assume, anyway. Perhaps I’m wrong.
I don’t think that key facts are often sourced via Wikipedia. On the other hand many facts that you find in an newspaper article aren’t the key facts.