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

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Feb 18, 2008 2:47 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:40 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> > 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.
> ----
> I think that if I put something there that was not represented, was
> useful in a non-political way, it would probably remain.
>

  try it!  thats a common technique of the PR specialists, they'll use
a dozen accounts to cloud the activity on the page and before you know
it, your contribution is gone!

  I've been through this when I attempted to add information
concerning the trademark status of the term 'Web 2.0' to the
Wikipedia::Web2.0 page.  Their level of sophistication is VERY high.

  -jmz


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