The Editor’s Desk

Thoughts on editing for print and online media

Wiki kudos

As mentioned here, many of us on the editing side are wary of Wikipedia. Those concerns about accuracy stand.

It wouldn’t be fair of us, however, to ignore this article in The New York Times that discusses how Wikipedia is getting credit for the way its contributors have reported on the Virginia Tech shootings.

One of those contributors describes herself as β€œan obsessive copy editor and spellchecker.” Wikipedia could use more like her.

Written by abechtel1

April 23, 2007 at 1:28 pm

Posted in Uncategorized