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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 24, 2010. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Film Quarterly called the documentary The Truth According to Wikipedia "a sharp and wide-ranging overview of wiki-pistemology"?

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VPRO Backlight is a TV program on Dutch national television. The article portrays The Truth According to Wikipedia as a documentary film and not as an episode of the program. Is 'film' or 'episode' the right term to describe it? – Editør (talk) 20:04, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Film. Per discussion as such, in the peer-reviewed film journal, Film Quarterly, at :
  • Walters, Ben (Fall 2008). "Grey Areas". Film Quarterly. 62 (1): 78–79. doi:10.1525/fq.2008.62.1.78. Archived from the original on 24 October 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015 – via JSTOR.
• Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 21:10, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The TV program itself refers to it as an 'aflevering' meaning 'episode': [1] [2], which seems more accurate to me. – Editør (talk) 01:08, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The film premiered globally at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam on 4 April 2008 -- before it was ever shown on television. Therefore, "film" is more accurate. — Cirt (talk) 01:12, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like a regular Tegenlicht episode. The so-called premiere on 4 April seems to have been merely a preview of that week's episode, which aired on 8 April 2008. – Editør (talk) 01:34, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather stick with what secondary WP:RS sources say, rather than individual editor opinion. Thank you, — Cirt (talk) 01:38, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Leitch, Thomas (2014). Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age. Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-1-4214-1535-2.

In this book it is called a "Dutch television documentary". So we have a secondary source saying it is a television documentary -- but not an "episode" -- rather essentially a Dutch documentary film, that happened to air on television. I think this would be an effective compromise, Editør, how about you ? — Cirt (talk) 01:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I generally have no problem compromising, but I think suggesting it was made as a documentary film or stand-alone television documentary is inaccurate. I would suggest the lead is changed to:

"The Truth According to Wikipedia", also referred to as "Wiki's Truth" (Dutch: "Wiki's Waarheid"), is a 2008 episode of the Dutch documentary television series Backlight about Wikipedia directed by IJsbrand van Veelen.

– Editør (talk) 11:02, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd much rather avoid "episode", as I've not come across that in secondary sources. I have already shown, above, secondary sources that refer to it as a documentary film. How about: "is a 2008 Dutch documentary film produced for the television series Backlight about Wikipedia directed by IJsbrand van Veelen. -- is that a satisfactory compromise, for you, Editør ? — Cirt (talk) 18:20, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Editør:Please see DIFF. Hopefully this is now a satisfactory compromise to you -- and we can all move on from this issue over one (1) word. Summary: Secondary sources refer to it as a documentary, a film, and a documentary film, but not an "episode", so I'd rather stick to the wording used in the overall predominance of the majority of the corpus of secondary sources. — Cirt (talk) 18:24, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Editør:I've made yet another attempt at good-faith-gesture-edit, piping links to "documentary" instead of "film" in the lede intro sect, here: DIFF. Hopefully this is now a satisfactory compromise to you, Editør ? — Cirt (talk) 18:36, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe we can be even more precise in the lead?

The Truth According to Wikipedia, also referred to as Wiki's Truth (Dutch: Wiki's Waarheid), is a Dutch documentary about Wikipedia directed by IJsbrand van Veelen. It was screened at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam on 4 April 2008 and aired as an episode of the Dutch documentary television series Backlight (Dutch: Tegenlicht) on 8 April 2008.

– Editør (talk) 19:07, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I think your version is alright as well. – Editør (talk) 19:13, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]