[WikiEN-l] Re: Can you trust Wikipedia?

[Daniel P. B. Smith]

> From: Jtkiefer <jtkiefer at wordzen.net>
>>> The Guardian has a story entitled "Can you trust Wikipedia?" in  
>>> which
>>> various specialists rate Wikipedia articles in their field of
>>> knowledge: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1599116,00.html
>
> As I also posted in another thread roughly on this topic, although we
> should be concerned whether or not Wikipedia is trustworthy we  
> shouldn't
> get ourselves too concerned about the register's "articles" about
> Wikipedia since every single article is clearly biased against  
> wikipedia
> beyond factuality so the register slamming us with criticism is just
> business as usual.

No, but we _should_ be concerned about the _Guardian's_ articles  
about Wikipedia.

Because the Register isn't trustworthy, but the Guardian is.

On a trustworthiness scale of 0 to 10, I'd pesonally score the  
Register as 3, the Guardian as 9.5.

And Slashdot as 2, Drudge as 4, and Wikipedia as, um, about a 7?


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