On 29/03/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The responsibility to avoid harm is shared. The public
should try to
avoid harm by being skeptical about what they receive, and we should
try to avoid harm by being as careful as we can within our structure
to be good about what we transmit.
I, and many others with reasonably long tenures by our standards,
believe we have a number of substantial quality problems which we are
undertaking insufficient efforts to address.
I don't have any magic solutions, but I can't sit by and dismiss such
concerns by throwing the entire responsibility on our users.
Quite. Whilst the responsibility for whatever diplomatic fracas
resulted* is on the shoulders of whoever lifted material from
Wikipedia, it doesn't change the fact that we fucked up in leaving it
there for them to lift.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
* not much; it should be borne in mind that of recent, UK-Zimbabwean
relations have basically been one continual diplomatic incident...