by Andy Wade » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:17 pm
DavidLeeds wrote:Thanks Andy. It is confusing capitalising the word WIND.
When I did the search for WIND spacecraft I got lots of hits and I tried a number of them, but I did not spot the Wikipedia one (it was probably on a later page). I find the Wikipedia website to be very good for information on astronomy related things that are not explained, or not well, in other links. Cheers.
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Yeah, Wiki is pretty good IMO. However, not all of the people making changes/additions are experts in their field, in fact probably most of the people doing it are just 'interested' people. So some of the info may not be accurate. It's one of the problems with Wikipedia. I have some contributions on there myself, but they get added to/chopped by others of course.
I try to keep things referenced properly to well regarded published sources.
It's not perfect, but it is a good antidote to all the spam emails, and porn/rubbish sites out there on the web.
Wikipedia and the APOD and LPOD sites are my current favourite places to visit online.
[quote="DavidLeeds"]Thanks Andy. It is confusing capitalising the word WIND.
When I did the search for WIND spacecraft I got lots of hits and I tried a number of them, but I did not spot the Wikipedia one (it was probably on a later page). I find the Wikipedia website to be very good for information on astronomy related things that are not explained, or not well, in other links. Cheers. :)[/quote]
Yeah, Wiki is pretty good IMO. However, not all of the people making changes/additions are experts in their field, in fact probably most of the people doing it are just 'interested' people. So some of the info may not be accurate. It's one of the problems with Wikipedia. I have some contributions on there myself, but they get added to/chopped by others of course.
I try to keep things referenced properly to well regarded published sources.
It's not perfect, but it is a good antidote to all the spam emails, and porn/rubbish sites out there on the web.
Wikipedia and the APOD and LPOD sites are my current favourite places to visit online.