On 12/1/06, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews(a)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.