[Wikimedia-l] Progress...

[David Cuenca]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>wrote:

> If systemic biased editing is not considered your statement would be
> true. However, one of the side effects of our volunteeristic methods is
> that systemic bias resulting from editing by groups and interests with
> numberless agendas is inevitable; not that Britannica was without certain
> systemic biases. Wikipedia does not have good editorial control and can
> never have it. Gresham's law is at work; no printed book has the beauty
> and quality of the Lindisfarne Gospels; nothing made on a machine loom
> compares remotely with Navajo weaving.
>

Also applies to the software world, and its acceptance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

Micru