Mark Pellegrini wrote:
Everyone's favorite FUD-master is at it again --- http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0503200191mar20,1,26199.story?c...
/ /*...* / A similar hyperbole surrounds such projects as the Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia open to all. The Wikipedia's apologists emphasize the great number of volunteers who have taken part in the project and the number of entries they have contributed. They emphasize also the communal nature of the undertaking, in which anyone with a better understanding of a subject, or a bigger ax to grind, can edit what someone else has created. Their prime article of faith is that this openness will inevitably lead to a high level of accuracy and quality. ...
Robert McHenry is former editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and is the author of "How to Know."
/This is the same guy who called us the Faith-based encyclopedia and compared us to a public toilet- http://www.techcentralstation.com/111504A.html
--Mark
"In each of these examples, a small and self-selected group convinces itself not so much that it represents the greater world beyond the computer screen but that it is in some ineffable way superior to it, that it has transcended the need for the hard lessons the rest of us have learned about how things actually work."
Can anyone say irony? The Encyclopedia Britannica uses an even smaller number of people to write their articles. Through the years, the EB has proven wrong in many of their editions. That they are more correct in their latest works shows that they have the same issues as Wikipedia.
TBSDY