On Feb 18, 2008 2:37 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://joshuazeidner.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
