At 1:23 PM -0500 1/17/06, David Ross wrote:
>>>Open source software works because you have to be reasonably expert to
>>>contribute and all your contributions will be reviewed by other  experts.
>>>Open source encyclopedias can be edited by any idiot, and with 900,000
>>>entries an erroneous entry can persist for quite a while before being
>>>reviewed by someone with the expertise to correct a subtle error.
>
>As I write this my TiVo is playing a BookTV segment from CSPAN from
>Monday which is talking about how they keep bumping into factual
>errors on wikipedia.
>
>Most people don't like to do research. Thus it's easy for errors to
>creep in, even if they aren't deliberate.

The media seems to be lacking here lately too, or maybe they're just
relying on wiki's for their fact checking ;)
--

-dhan

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