[WikiEN-l] BBC: Bill Thompson: Wikipedia is flawed and that's OK

[Marc Riddell]

on 7/23/09 1:14 PM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution/2009/07/wikipedia.shtml
> 
> "But Wikipedia is flawed in the way Ely Cathedral is flawed, imperfect
> in the way a person you love is imperfect, and filled with conflict
> and disagreement in the way a good conference or an effective
> parliament is filled with argument."
> 
> 
David, you left out the very next paragraph:

"To point this out is not to dismiss its usefulness or deny its value, even
if those most closely involved occasionally act as if anything less than
complete subordination to the Wikipedia world view is an act of betrayal.

This says a great deal about the open, free dialogue in the Project :-(.

And the references to - and defensiveness about - the "ivory tower" speaks
volumes :-).

Marc Riddell