On Feb 18, 2008 2:47 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:40 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > 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. > ---- > 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 -- http://joshuazeidner.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
