[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia struggles, Mozilla set for life?

[David Gerard]

On 27/10/2007, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> This part of his quote is more troubling:
> "The greatest problem with Wikipedia that we now find is that they are
> highly selective in who should place information and where therefore they
> will never really have a web-based encyclopaedia that is unbiased and
> totally factual. It is ultimately at the whims of the few enlightened ones
> who control what should be a great reference. Unfortunately we now see that
> it is not."
> The perception that Wikipedia is controlled by "the few" is painful, and
> relatively common. In my experience, individual articles or sometimes
> subject areas are indeed sometimes controlled by a "few", but certainly not
> the whole thing. The vast majority of my edits never run into any kind of
> problem editors. So why does this perception linger so long?


Because people would rather believe there is a conspiracy to suppress
the truth than that they are wrong.


- d.