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

[wjhonson at aol.com]

 One thing which I'll no longer stand as a Wikipedia, is the pre-wiki citation mode that the like of that hack job Encyclopedia Brittanica uses.? All the citations lumped at the end, with no ability to cite *a* fact to *its* evidence.? So to follow up an article, each person must be an expert.

That pre-2000 mode of encyclopedia writing is dead and must be stomped on repeatedly to ensure it stays dead ;)





<<"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.>>


 


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 23, 2009 10:58 am
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC: Bill Thompson: Wikipedia is flawed and that's OK










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


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