http://awads.net/wp/2006/04/27/is-it-true-that-anyone-can-contribute-to-wikipedia/ News, views, tips and tricks on Oracle and other fun stuff Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:41:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://awads.net/wp/2006/04/27/is-it-true-that-anyone-can-contribute-to-wikipedia/#comment-5026 Eddie Awad Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:03:07 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/2006/04/27/is-it-true-that-anyone-can-contribute-to-wikipedia/#comment-5026 <p>I think the assumption is that there are many more "good" Wiki contributors than "bad". So, bad information gets corrected quickly. Of course, this works best when you have thousands of people editing the Wiki at any given time, so that bad information gets corrected/filtered quickly (maybe with other bad information!).</p> I think the assumption is that there are many more “good” Wiki contributors than “bad”. So, bad information gets corrected quickly. Of course, this works best when you have thousands of people editing the Wiki at any given time, so that bad information gets corrected/filtered quickly (maybe with other bad information!).

]]> http://awads.net/wp/2006/04/27/is-it-true-that-anyone-can-contribute-to-wikipedia/#comment-5006 Tom_Fox Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:40:37 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/2006/04/27/is-it-true-that-anyone-can-contribute-to-wikipedia/#comment-5006 <p>That's why I don't trust Wikipedia entirely. You gather a few billion (maybe million, who knows) people who claim to know things and entering data. Some of the data is accurate while some is not. It's more or less a holding cell for data on what the popular vote holds. In their own terms, you can't change things constantly, so you can have the correct facts and enter them, only to have many more people change it back to something else. I trust it as much as I do Microsoft.</p> That’s why I don’t trust Wikipedia entirely. You gather a few billion (maybe million, who knows) people who claim to know things and entering data. Some of the data is accurate while some is not. It’s more or less a holding cell for data on what the popular vote holds. In their own terms, you can’t change things constantly, so you can have the correct facts and enter them, only to have many more people change it back to something else. I trust it as much as I do Microsoft.

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