12-02-2017 15:11 via theguardian.com

'Reliability is all for Wikipedia, which is why the Daily Mail was banned'

Katherine Maher, head of the Wikipedia Foundation, discusses the platform’s role and questions around accuracyNews that a few dozen Wikipedia editors had decided that the Daily Mail should be “generally prohibited” from being used as a source caused consternation among many in the media. That’s not least because the anarchic way in which policy is set at the “world’s public library” is a million miles away from what most of the journalists and academics
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