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[ PRIVACY Forum ] 60% of Wikipedia entries about companies contain
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Tue Apr 17 13:37:25 2012
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:13:04 -0700
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60% of Wikipedia entries about companies contain errors - correcting them isn't easy
http://j.mp/IuII3Q (Science News)
When respondents attempted to engage editors through Wikipedia's
"Talk" pages to request factual corrections to entries, 40 percent
said it took "days" to receive a response, 12 percent indicated
"weeks," while 24 percent never received any type of response.
According to Wikipedia, the standard response time to requests for
corrections is between two and five days. Only 35 percent of
respondents were able to engage with Wikipedia, either by using its
"Talk" pages to converse with editors or through direct editing of a
client's entry. Respondents indicated this figure is low partly
because some fear media backlash over making edits to clients'
entries. Respondents also expressed a certain level of uncertainty
regarding how to properly edit Wikipedia entries. Of those who were
familiar with the process of editing Wikipedia entries, 23 percent
said making changes was "near impossible." Twenty-nine percent said
their interactions with Wikipedia editors were "never productive."
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