Re: [silk] register on wikipedia

2005-10-19 Thread jcox
Silkers, Andrew Orlowski ( http://www.theregister.com/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/ ) makes a valid point that there are many flawed entries; however, in fairness to Wikipedia, most new projects have quality problems here and there. The typical article on Wikipedia is remar

Re: [silk] register on wikipedia

2005-10-18 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
sorry, i meant to annotate, not just linkspam. my favourite quotes from the article are: "If you don't like an entry, you can fix it yourself. Which is rather like going to a restaurant for a date, being served terrible food, and then being told by the waiter where to find the kitchen. But you

[silk] register on wikipedia

2005-10-18 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
interesting article criticising wikipedia (and its supporters... like clay shirky, is he still on silklist?) http://www.theregister.com/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/