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September 18, 2006
Wikipedia's ok
Wikipedia's ok: Michael Arrington notes same of the same content problems on Wikipedia that we've been seeing with Flash (and Dare Obasanjo collects more). Then Mike asks "Does Wikipedia need to be fixed?" That "fixed" makes Wikipedia sound like a machine, where it's either absolutely working or absolutely not working. Wikipedia is a group of people -- it doesn't get fixed, it evolves, changing in response to environmental incentives and internal rules, decentralized. Even in its current form it helps challenge the newbie tendency to believe the net [aside: hmm, Salinger Syndrome doesn't seem to have its Wikipedia page anymore?], and changes to the rules will slowly change the nature of the group. But the word "fix" makes me wonder whether the speaker assumes there's a fixed goal -- presumably "absolute truth, easily found on the net" -- which I don't think may be a practical goal. Using Wikipedia for what it is, that may be the best thing to come of the blogifact-like problems people are noticing now...
Posted by JohnDowdell at September 18, 2006 07:43 AM
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