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

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Feb 18, 2008 2:37 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 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.
> ----
> what does that make me...chopped liver?
> ----

  Craig,

   read this article:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush

   THEN... tell me that Wikipedia is a place that anyone can post
information to, and have it remain there.

  -jmz



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