Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/17/06, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Take the latest [[Ken Lay]] debate. With wire outlets like Reuters, their story gets regurgitated in many different outlets - paper, online, television, radio, etc. The media reports this as evidence that Wikipedia is in trouble. If the story is obviously inaccurate, they should be called on it.
Wikipedia-bashing is becoming more prevalent. The slightly tragic thing is that its quality is obviously increasing greatly with each passing year. However, its increasing popularity means that despite that, the effect of increasing numbers of people coming into contact with its deficiencies is that the general populace thinks it's getting worse. If that makes sense.
It's the price of being big.
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