Comment on Is it dumb to create a wiki in this day and age?
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoWikipedia doesn’t allow original research as a source. It has to be reported by a second party before it is accepted. This makes most political topics hard to properly cite.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You sure about that? It feels like a dubious claim, especially considering, for example, the Public Transport article I linked has at least 6 DOI references to journal articles.
Additionally, even if true, most journal articles of any value get picked up at least once, pretty easy to get a secondary source to back a claim.
lysol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think you misunderstand, he means you can’t publish the results of your own research to Wikipedia. It has to be published somewhere else and then you need to reference to that on Wikipedia.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oh, well I guess that’s true, but I find it hard to fathom that OP was going to do their own research (in the sense you described) on something like transportation infrastructure costs. Unless OP runs their own infrastructure network where they can pull real cost and usage data, I assumed the research they were referring to was more in the realm of a lit review.
Unless OP is a secret billionaire, odds are this rule will not impact their efforts.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
…wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia:No_original_research