Message-ID: <Xns9A2BA4F6679BFwhhvans(a)news.albasani.net> "AFAICT, though, the Wikipedia model appears to accept "has been posted to Wikipedia by multiple contributors" as constituting verification. Wikipedia's main weakness is that, at base, it's a pub conversation. It's a large pub conversation, and is open to contributions from passers-by who know their onions, but it's still basically a bunch of interested people who might -- or might not -- know much about something, having a chat."

Message-ID: <Xns9A2BA4F6679BFwhhvans(a)news.albasani.net> "AFAICT, though, the Wikipedia model appears to accept "has been posted to Wikipedia by multiple contributors" as constituting verification. Wikipedia's main weakness is that, at base, it's a pub conversation. It's a large pub conversation, and is open to contributions from passers-by who know their onions, but it's still basically a bunch of interested people who might -- or might not -- know much about something, having a chat." _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Wikipedia's main weakness is that, at base, it's a pub conversation. It's a large pub conversation, and is open to contributions from passers-by who know their onions, but it's still basically a bunch of interested people who might -- or might not -- know much about something, having a chat."