[Foundation-l] New Proposal: WikiMemory

[Traroth]

Yep. The inverifiability of the contributed stuff
removes almost all of the value of this idea. Sad.

Traroth

--- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> a écrit :

> 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
> 
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