Wikipedia and SemEval, so what?

[Stan Szpakowicz]

On 10-11-09 8:50 AM, semeval3...@googlegroups.com wrote:

> Wikipedia is considering deleting their entry on SemEval

I struggle to understand the significance of Wikipedia. Consider this:
all it takes to remove a perfectly decent article is a misinformed
demand of a "Resident Anthropologist" who "cant read the damn thing" and
can't even spell ("masqauading"?). Do we care about a portal which is so
easy to manipulate? We have a stable Web presence, a good site at
semeval2.fbk.eu and a lot of relevant Google hits on the first page.

Yours perplexed,

--
Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, Professor
SITE, Computer Science, University of Ottawa

[Peter Turney]

I think there is a good case for a SemEval page on Wikipedia. I expect wiser voices will drown out Resident Anthropologist.

On the other hand, the current Wikipedia SemEval page needs a lot of work. I think it should be cut down to less than a quarter of its current size. Can't see the forest for the trees.

Peter

[Suresh Manandhar]

Hi Peter, Hi Ken

It appears that the current discussions seems to be changing the tide towards keeping the article.

Would this be a correct assessment?

It appears that the majority of comments refers to improving the article either in terms of formatting or content.


Suresh