[Mediawiki-l] (fyi) Wikipedia != Authoritative?

[Sterling D. Allan]

This is one of the reasons that at PES Network we aim to have a peer review
article (not editable by community) for each of the major wiki articles.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/05/1339219

Wikipedia != Authoritative?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 05, @08:02AM
from the well-duh-people dept.
Frozen North writes "Recently, this article in the Syracuse Post-Standard
caused a stir by dismissing Wikipedia as an authoritative source, and even
suggesting that it was a little deceptive by looking too much like a "real"
encyclopedia. Techdirt suggested an experiment: insert bogus information
into Wikipedia, and see how long it takes for the mistake to be removed.
Well, I did that experiment, and the results weren't good: five errors
inserted over five days, all of which lasted until I removed them myself at
the end of the experiment."