Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:22 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>   Larry, the problem though with Wikipedia is that the actual basis of
> credibility on which a given article rests is virtually intractable.
> There are thousands of apparent contributors all adding, deleting,
> editing portions of the article and there is absolutely no way in the
> Wiki medium to determine which portions of the article are coming from
> credible sources.  The Wiki idea works when you have a high level of
> trust in all potential participants, when you've got various
> contributors with a variety of motives the medium becomes corrupted
> VERY quickly.  At this point anyone who has used Wikipedia seriously
> no longer considers it to be a stable system, despite what Jimbo tells
> you.
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what does that make me...chopped liver?
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>   The Google Knol idea did somewhat address these shortcomings.
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Google good, Wikipedia bad...I'm so behind on memes...

Craig