[WikiEN-l] You really don't get it

[Stephen Bain]

On 4/21/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Look around.  There are millions of websites (blogs, home pages,
> YouTube videos, etc) out there with libelous material, much of it
> blatantly false, out there for anyone to see.
...
> Again: Wikipedia is not the worst place on the Internet from a
> perspective of actually protecting people's rights not to be attacked
> or slandered, or at least to get it fixed if they are.  It's arguably
> close to the best place on the Internet from those perspectives.

Wikipedia is dramatically different from those other sites and types
of sites. Not only are Wikipedia pages about a subject far, far more
prominent than some random blog post or homepage about a subject, but
the Wikipedia pages are presented as fact, and not just the opinion of
some random guy with a Myspace.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com