Comments on: Veropedia launches

By: Veropedia: Wikipedia mit Qualitätskontrolle - The Inquirer DE

Veropedia: Wikipedia mit Qualitätskontrolle - The Inquirer DE — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:47:37 +0000

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By: JoshuaZ

JoshuaZ — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:10:14 +0000

Hey, your blog entry is now cited on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veropedia (and yes, you are a reliable source for this purpose as a primary talking about your own thing). Actually, trying to help out that stub and getting repeated nasty tags made me understand a little bit how all the people who feel like our tagging system is really hostile and makes them feel unwanted. I’m really going to need to rethink my attitude on that. I mean, I’m even used to the system, I know what the standards are, and I felt a bit irritated. Anyways, I hope everything is going better with you than it was the last time we talked.

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:51:38 +0000

The parser checks for everything that can reasonably be checked by a computer without the development of strong AI. Thus it isn’t able to check for content. But it does check for spelling, broken external links, maintenance tags, links to disambiguation pages, non-free images, incorrectly formatted citations, and a lot more.

By: Gregory Kohs

Gregory Kohs — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:20:18 +0000

Hey Cyde… Just curious if you could elaborate on what sorts of “flaws” are being checked and corrected. Are we just talking about spelling errors and subject-verb agreement? Or would the content flaws as found on a nightmare article like “History of West Eurasia” also be corrected? I just feel like the content flaws are going to be the more troublesome to spot, and certainly more troublesome to “fix up” in Wikipedia, when you consider that biased, anonymous admins are lording over certain articles and quickly revert any attempts to “fix up” the deliberate bias in the articles. (E.g., see Wikipedia for circumcision, PETA, Lyndon LaRouche, Indie rock, Tourism apartheid, and Ayurveda. Some would say they are quite beyond “fixing”.)