[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias

Puddl Duk puddlduk at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 19:41:30 UTC 2005


>
> I just now returned from an 8 hour seminar wherein we were repeatedly
> informed that free, non-governmental information on the internet is
> dubious at best, and should be avoided for anything other than
> commercial or general knowledge queries. Instead, the online
> university  database was praised (it includes a subscription to
> britannica, btw ;)
>
> Jack (Sam Spade)
>

Get used to it. As long as we have no validation/review/vetting/rating
mechanism we will always be in various stages of dubiousness.



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