On 15/08/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Great news.com commentary piece on WP, humorous and serious at the same time: http://news.com.com/Teens+warning+on+the+gospel+of+Wikipedia/2010-1038_3-610... "Of course, for students, Wikipedia is the miracle cure for procrastination (and there's science to back that up; a recent poll showed that nine out of 10 doctors suggested Wikipedia as a cure to putting homework off. The other 10 percent were too busy uploading spurious entries to participate in the poll)."
Good. I feel like half my talking to the press is getting across that we're fallible and we do our best, but it's a perpetual working draft and this is a feature rather than a problem - and there's no substitute for thinking.
- d.