Magnus Manske wrote:
* this can be gamed (mark it as a minor edit, or write
"google" under
sources, or give some non-existing or out-of print book, or a book in an
obscure language, or set up your own fake page and then give it as
source, or...)
What's wrong with using an out-of-print book as a source?
It might be the only source for this 18-people remote saami village in
the Kiruna municipality of Lapland?
As Brion already stated correctly, the current
Wikipedia is an eternal
beta version. Validation (how's that coming, BTW?;-) will eventually
give some hints to the "end user", but it probably would not have caught
the JFK blunder either.
Parts look more like alpha than like beta to me.
That directly leads to a (relatively) small, elite
(!=cabal) group of
peer reviewers. The cathedral filtering the bazaar, as I said before.
This could be done externally (software's in the making), or within
wikipedia. The latter would be nicer, however, it might lead to more
conflict between those who can peer review and those who can not.
A problem with a bazaar is that the products sold might not conform to
the norms that current society holds.
Gerrit.
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