Detecting and preventing hoaxes in wikis
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This page is emerging from a lengthy discussion on Breaching Experiments dealing with possibilities of research in the wiki environment. While planning an experiment aimed to infiltrate such a material might be highly controversial, there is a (hopefully) general agreement that preventing incorrect information to appear on any site (e.g. Wikiversity or Wikipedia) is useful.
List for now...
[edit | edit source]Here are some pages that might form the core of the page. Feel free to add/rework:
- w:Reliability of Wikipedia
- w:Criticism of Wikipedia
- w:WikiScanner
- W:Wikipedia biography controversy
- w:USA Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia
- w:List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- w:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-03-08/News and notes#DYK featured fake BLP - the problem is very real...
- here is the full story - this is actually a case study from the "author" describing the whole process
- w:Edward Owens - a case of a WP hoax designed by a group of students