The Wikipedian - Pentadactyl. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Pentadactyl. The major points of criticism of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, are the claims that the principle of being open for editing by everyone makes Wikipedia unauthoritative and unreliable (see Reliability of Wikipedia), that it exhibits systemic bias, and that its group dynamics hinder its goals. Among many examples, the Seigenthaler and Essjay incidents caused criticism of Wikipedia's reliability and usefulness as a reference.[1][2] The fact that Wikipedia explicitly is not designed to provide correct information about a subject, but rather only present the majority “weight” of viewpoints creates omissions which can lead to false beliefs based on incomplete information.[3][4][5] Criticism of content[edit] Analysis of talk page messages during the June 3rd Wikipedia Summer of Research mini-sprint[6] Accuracy of information[edit] Lack of authority[edit] Comparative study on scientific articles conducted by Nature[edit] Lack of fact-checking on specialized topics[edit] Scientific disputes[edit]
Open Codex by Joseph Reagle - Pentadactyl. Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. (G.B. Shaw) - Pentadactyl. A few weeks ago, at the Amsterdam Hackaton, Lodewijk Gelauff (aka Effeietsanders) asked me to look into the Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) data and provide a list of images, who uploaded them, when, and for which country. Primary goal: to provide accurate data for the submission of the 2012 contest as Guinness World Record (world record currently held by WLM 2011), and was indeed a global event (WLM scope in 2010: The Netherlands, 2011: Europe, 2012: Earth).
Once these data were extracted, an update on retention rates, and a breakdown per country for images and contributors would also be nice. Retention rates With cleaner data than half a year ago we did rerun editor retention numbers. In Sep 2011 3,497 new users contributed to WLM. Out of these, 397 still contributed in Nov 2011 or later, on any Wikimedia wiki, thus leading to an awesome retention rate for WLM 2011 of 11.4% !! In Sep 2012 10,825 new users contributed to WLM, in Oct another 412 (WLM Israel ended later). Breakdown by country. Best of Wikipedia - Pentadactyl. WikiProject Home Page - Pentadactyl.