On Friday 05 May 2006 19:58, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > (snip) > > > > There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even > > longer - and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, > > would you really bet, that every case of voluntary misinformation can and > > will be found? > > In that case you should stop using GNU/OSS software, as you have no way > of knowing every piece of code using your brains.. Have you ever audited > kernel before updating? No.. But still you update.. Why? Because you > trust that someone will point some malicious code, if any, before it > comes to your machine.. Likewise, if someone reads the article and he > sees some inconsistency, he'll in all likelihood correct it (just in > wiki's, not entirely possible in "Reliable Articles By Experts")..
not everybody has write access to the cvs/svn/whatever tree. In all software projects, only devs have write access. Everybody else can send in patches, but they can not just edit the sources. And I trust the devs, because if shit happens, everybody will be able to see, who did it. With wikipedia, everybody can go and edit what they want, when they want, where they want. Why don't you google? Hidden vandalism and misinformation are known problems. There are even cases, where someone corrected an article, and an admin undid the corrections, because people are not allowed to edit their biographies. Even if there are blatant lies and errors. You can use http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Main_Page as a starting point. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
