Hey II2II...
I won't quote your whole post...
But if I say that I altered a fact about the British isles on wikipedia & then the next day the "fact" was altered back the way it was..... Now obviously me being from the British isles I am obviously so ignorant as to not know what I'm talking about... no it is better for peer moderation that some nerdy American computer geek corrects my facts and gives me their American version of the facts.
If I can just say here that I use wiki, when I want to look things up quite often..... I just double or triple check the facts elsewhere afterwards.
For me the biggest problem wiki has is how I think of politics.... who wins in the politics? the smartest guy? the person with the best policies? Most often no, most often it's the people with the loudest voice who win & so it is with wiki, hang being correct or fair, the loudest win.
The other problem with wiki of course is that no matter how long one may argue, there are allways at least two versions of history, both may hold truths, and both may be different!
I was harsh & expected a fairly harsh rebutt but wiki has some serious delusions..... I think I just don't see that it can do what it beilieves it does, it is just too ambitious.
I won't quote your whole post...
But if I say that I altered a fact about the British isles on wikipedia & then the next day the "fact" was altered back the way it was..... Now obviously me being from the British isles I am obviously so ignorant as to not know what I'm talking about... no it is better for peer moderation that some nerdy American computer geek corrects my facts and gives me their American version of the facts.
If I can just say here that I use wiki, when I want to look things up quite often..... I just double or triple check the facts elsewhere afterwards.
For me the biggest problem wiki has is how I think of politics.... who wins in the politics? the smartest guy? the person with the best policies? Most often no, most often it's the people with the loudest voice who win & so it is with wiki, hang being correct or fair, the loudest win.
The other problem with wiki of course is that no matter how long one may argue, there are allways at least two versions of history, both may hold truths, and both may be different!
I was harsh & expected a fairly harsh rebutt but wiki has some serious delusions..... I think I just don't see that it can do what it beilieves it does, it is just too ambitious.