On 29/03/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
The responsibility to avoid harm is shared. The public should try to avoid harm by being skeptical about what they receive, and we should try to avoid harm by being as careful as we can within our structure to be good about what we transmit.
I, and many others with reasonably long tenures by our standards, believe we have a number of substantial quality problems which we are undertaking insufficient efforts to address.
I don't have any magic solutions, but I can't sit by and dismiss such concerns by throwing the entire responsibility on our users.
Quite. Whilst the responsibility for whatever diplomatic fracas resulted* is on the shoulders of whoever lifted material from Wikipedia, it doesn't change the fact that we fucked up in leaving it there for them to lift.