Traroth wrote:
Well... Why not ? Are you people OK with testimonies like "I was there when US army shooted on Hotel Palestine in Bagdad" or "I was in the jails of Abu Graib" ?
I think this sort of thing would be very problematic. When it comes to contentious topics, like Israel-Palestine, people have repeatedly demonstrated that they are willing to completely fabricate eye-witness accounts to make one or the other side look bad.
Published eye-witness accounts can also be fabricated, of course, but have the benefit that since they're in the public sphere of published work, the more questionable oens have often attracted published refutations. Similarly, books on controversial subjects are often reviewed in the 'book review' sections of journals. A purported eyewitness account added directly to a wiki doesn't benefit from any of that sort of peer review.
-Mark