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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Wikipedia to fight vandals in Germany
>
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>| When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as pope last year, some
>| Internet users who logged onto Wikipedia to see what he looked like
>| found a rather different image: that of the evil emperor from "Star Wars."
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> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1186418988;fp;524288;fpid;1
>
> Concepts of a Wiki and Open Source/Linux are closely related. The fork of
> Wikipedia hasn't been mentioned in COLA yet.
The problem you have /then/ is who chooses the moderators...
Unfortunately, as long as there are people like Mr Wong, who believe
that breaking the law to make money for shareholders is the duty of a
company, then you're going to get corporates paying people to pollute
and distort information bases. Wiki was a wonderful idea in many
respects, but does seem to show a certain naivety in the behaviour of
people - there are far too many people with flexible morals to allow
something like wiki to be reliable.
Perhaps some kind of fusion with traditional, edited, encyclopaedia and
the open, edit-it-yourself approach of wiki might work?
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while
you're being miserable.
-- C.B. Luce
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