--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
This is what the Sifter project is supposed to do. I doubt that the time will /ever/ come that people say �Look it up on Wikipedia -- that's a reliable source.�. Rather, they'll say �Look it up on /Sifterpedia/.�. Nobody's really working on the Sifter project right now -- but that can change at any time.
I rather think that people realize that the web is always "under construction", and that since time generally allows new knowledge to come to light, the W will generally increase in quality.
Also, the EB is trusted as far as people trust a British commercial entity. The British, as a nation and to their credit, are probably the most even keeled in terms of their pov. However, they cannot touch the diversity of thoughts and points of view that is available on a truly international encyclopedia. They are still western in outlook, and maintain quite a fondness for the scientific process, at the expense in my opinion for more populist notions.
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