Re: Correcting Wikipedia
AC for obv reasons
Other half is an academic.
OH briefly tried editing wikipedia articles in their specialist area (OH, like many academics is world experts on some niche areas of their subject and in more "general" of their specialism stil has published work / world class reputation )
OH soon gave up editing wikipedia articles (and edits made were not major rewrites, just correcting gross factual errors) because wiki editors kept putting back the erroneous text.
WIki editors were not experts in that area as some errors were so bad I could spot them (you absorb some knowledge of your partners research arae over the years as you tend to be "go to" initial reader of journal / book draft articles to check balance of readability (book articles should be more accessible to lay-person, journal ones more specialist and require far more underlying base knowledge of the area so less repeating the basics needed) )
Solution was OH just tells students to non trust wikipedia at all in terms of OH subject specialism, and to only rely on references given during the courses as any lazy cheating of using wikipedia will backfire on them badly
Still, as miscellaneous accurate data not on wikipedia does mean OH got to produce a few book chapters covering those araes (instead of freely providing the data on wikipedia)
This was in (relatively) early days of wikipedia, it may have improved now, but once people get a bad experience at editing they don't (often) go back.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
