"The Cunctator" wrote
I'd just like to remind people that Wikipedia was doing quite well in the Age Before Required Sourcing.
Yeah. But there has been something of a 'phase change'; and that is not for no reason. Several really. The readers are less tolerant of and amused by errors; the editing community has largely preferred a more academic approach over time. Nothing scales 'with impunity' (I think this is the fundamental theorem of computer science ...)
Charles
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On 12/1/06, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"The Cunctator" wrote
I'd just like to remind people that Wikipedia was doing quite well in the Age Before Required Sourcing.
Yeah. But there has been something of a 'phase change'; and that is not for no reason. Several really. The readers are less tolerant of and amused by errors; the editing community has largely preferred a more academic approach over time. Nothing scales 'with impunity' (I think this is the fundamental theorem of computer science ...)
I'll buy the second but would dispute the first point. The level of tolerance of and amusement by errors seems to have remained quite static.