On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mohit Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Interestingly, the five rules themselves are editable! The page for the > > Neutral Point of view is also editable. :) So much power in > collaboration / > > crowdsourcing. > > -- > > exactly, that's what I want to say. when these pages are editable then > what makes these articles so authentic ? As Mani said "Plenty of > misinformation (including statistics) does get in and people do not > care to correct them." There are equal probability of being this > misinformation there by mistake or intensionally but misinformation is > misinformation. I do agree there can be some moderators who are doing > there great job but when it comes to the sensitive information like > information regarding any nation or territory, how can a wrong > information be there. As you can see the page about Mr. Manmohan Singh > is edited last time on 18th feb., 3 days back, I guess enough time to > circulate a wrong information about him. What in that case ? Have anyone on list ever created any pages on wikipedia ? Or did a major contribution to a pages ? (I am not asking for small typo contribution) Most attractive thing about the wikipedia is ownership. people who create pages and contribute major part in a article feel a sort of ownership. This keep themself looking at the updates. Most of the time this guy is also a subject expert. So this is one of the major factor which keep cleaning wikipedia. This is my own experience. -- LUG@IITD - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
