On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:23:08PM -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
1. How much should we care about encouraging people
to understand the
pro/con aspects of Wikipedia's mutability?
As much as possible! :-)
And then get them to edit!
3. positively : We can use the time people spend
visiting/viewing a
disclaimer to educate them a bit about disclaimers in all sorts of
knowledge everywhere. A disclaimer that provides background and
context for disclaimers in general and those used in reference works
in specific. Would that be ok? It would certainly be interesting and
empowering, rather than frightening and offensive, as some find the
current texts.
What do you propose?
4. alternatively : groups that really worry about being sued tend to
have longer, even more frightening disclaimers than ours; is it worth
finding an eloquently conservative set of disclaimers that enumerates
hundreds of specific ways in which Wikipedia should not be used?
This could be an endless source of humor too. <innocent look>
read you soon,
Kim Bruning
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