[WikiEN-l] News.com: Teen's warning on the gospel of Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 15/08/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great news.com commentary piece on WP, humorous and serious at the same time:
> http://news.com.com/Teens+warning+on+the+gospel+of+Wikipedia/2010-1038_3-6104446.html?tag=fd_carsl
> "Of course, for students, Wikipedia is the miracle cure for
> procrastination (and there's science to back that up; a recent poll
> showed that nine out of 10 doctors suggested Wikipedia as a cure to
> putting homework off. The other 10 percent were too busy uploading
> spurious entries to participate in the poll)."


Good. I feel like half my talking to the press is getting across that
we're fallible and we do our best, but it's a perpetual working draft
and this is a feature rather than a problem - and there's no
substitute for thinking.


- d.