[WikiEN-l] Truthiness- Wikipedia Video

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Fri Apr 11 20:17:09 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Joseph Reagle <reagle at mit.edu> wrote:
>  Keen's book was sloppy; my favorite critic of Wikipedia continues to be
>  Robert McHenry who notes "I don't question the fact that there's a great
>  deal of very good very solid information in Wikipedia, it could hardly be
>  otherwise. By sheer chance there would be there some good stuff in there.
>  My criticism is that there is some very very bad stuff, and there's no way
>  to tell the difference" (30 minute).

There are ways to tell the difference, they just involve using sources
outside of Wikipedia.



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