[Wikipedia-l] Steve Jobs on Wikipedia

[Stan Shebs]

Bernd Kulawik wrote:

>
> "This is a favourite of mine: Wikipedia. For those of you who don't  
> know: This is an Open Source encyclopedia where everybody contributes  
> to it. It has now become one of the most robust and certainly  
> accurate encyclopedias in the world because you got experts from all  
> over the world contributing to it. And we just look up "tiger" in  
> here, and you get the low-down (?) on all kinds of tigers. So that's  
> Wikipedia and it's great."
>
> Maybe I made some mistake in understanding or spelling ... but the  
> fact remains that one of the most important important people in the  
> IT sector - whose visions had a great influence on the way we are  
> using computers today - calls Wikipedia "great" and his favourite. -  
> I like that :-)

I'm here at WWDC (working :-) ) and saw it in person - the plug
was great, plus there was a full audience of reporters in the front
row. I was very relieved to see that the tiger article wasn't in a
vandalized state...

Stan