[B-Greek] Fwd: [b-hebrew] Wikipedia replacement
David McKay
gontroppo at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 2 02:23:35 EST 2007
I hope it is OK to make a quick comment on the
Wikipedia.
I occasionally come across an article that has an
obvious agenda. [Some anti-gun control articles spring
to mind.]
And of course I have only sampled a tiny number of the
articles, but that is the same for the encyclopedias
such as Encyclopedia Britannica and Encarta as well.
It would seem to me to be overwhelming reliable,
though the grammar and spelling could be better, on
occasion.
I see many more gaffes in the daily newspapers.
Not decrying the value of a scholarpedia, though.
David McKay
--- David Anderson <sarxws at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently was informed of this in the B-Hebrew list
> and thought to bring it
> to the Greek list if it hasn't been already.
>
> Currently, http://www.scholarpedia.org/ does not
> contain any Greek, Hebrew,
> or Biblical matter at all. But with the help of this
> forum hopefully that
> will all change.
>
> As many of you may know, Wikipedia.org is somewhat
> unreliable due to the
> fact that anyone can edit and encyclopedic article,
> changes are immediate
> without supervision. Unless someone in the know
> comes accross some invalid
> information and changes it, many will read ill
> information trustfully.
>
> The great thing about http://www.scholarpedia.org/
> is that changes are made
> by those elected by the community who are experts in
> the field. Then, when
> an edit is performed (anyone can edit an article)
> the edit is submitted for
> review before it is published on the site.
>
> This definitely is a more exciting approach to a
> free peer-reviewed
> encyclopedic website. Much better than Wikipedia I
> think.
>
> David Anderson
> B.A. Philosophy & Theology
> Steubenville, Ohio
> Sarxws at gmail.com
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bill Rea <bsr15 at cantsl.it.canterbury.ac.nz>
> Date: Feb 1, 2007 4:47 PM
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Wikipedia replacement
> To: b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org
>
> B-Hebrewers:-
>
> Many times members have drawn on information in
> Wikipedia.
> There is new project underway at:-
>
> http://www.scholarpedia.org/
>
> which should overcome some of Wikipedia's
> limitations given
> time.
>
> Bill Rea, ICT Services, University of Canterbury \_
> E-Mail bill.rea at canterbury.ac.nz </
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> Phone 64-3-364-2331, Fax 64-3-364-2332 /)
> Zealand
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