Richard Grevers wrote:
Can I just take a minute to congratulate Wikipedians
on the articles on the
Columbia accident (
http://www.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster ). The coverage is better than
anything I found on other internet media or print media, and dispels many
of the "jump to conclusions" storylines.
Wikijournalism beats standard journalism :-)
It's funny, but everytime I talk to journalists, I assure them
(because I usually get a hostile-seeming question about it) that the
open content wiki model is good for an encyclopedia, but can't replace
journalistic writing of news stories.
But sometimes I wonder. I, too, turned first to wikipedia (and added
a photo of one astronaut as 'payment' for the information got) for
solid, clear, unbiased, thorough background information... updated in
near-realtime, too.
--Jimbo