[Web4lib] Wikipedia in Chronicle of Higher Education

[Jimm Wetherbee]

Mike,

Amusing or not, wouldn't the question be how much vetting is necessary
before an article goes out as authoritative to those who are not experts
in the subject under consideration and how do the rest of us know that a
given article is "good enough."  I am reminded of those who refuse to
install a version of Windows until after the first service pack is
released; though at least there one does have a measure of when the
product is mostly stable. 

--jimm

Mike Taylor wrote:
> lars writes:
>  > Later in the same article, however, history professor Roy 
>  > Rosenzweig "notes, amusedly, that several Wikipedians appear to 
>  > have since read his critiques and edited a number of articles in 
>  > response to his concerns."
>
> This is good.  Rosenzweig notes this "amusedly", but in fact it is the
> Wikipedia in action doing precisely what it is supposed to do: correct
> itself quickly as soon as errors are detected.
>
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> 	 paid to do, after all" -- Larry Wall.
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