[Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

[David Gerard]

On 26 October 2010 20:30, Michael Snow <wikipedia at frontier.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:

>> I *facepalm*ed. ENGINEER HUBRIS IS NOT WHAT WIKIPEDIA IS FOR!

> No, but it's what much of Wikipedia was written with.


+1

Actually, it was the computer stuff that was the first area of
Wikipedia that I found actually useful as a first place to look. Now
it's *everything*, and I am daily awed at the utterly breathtaking
thing that we have, in fact, built here.

There's a place for applied engineer hubris[1]. With due caution.


- d.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/engineers%20and%20woo