OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Wed Jul 2 19:12:58 UTC 2008
>>
>> wikipedia is just a pile of junk. everyone can put in it, and
>> unfortunately do.
>
> Meanwhile, in print encyclopedias, I see that with restricted writing
> access and strict editing processes there are typically systemic biases
> and subtler mistakes that are much easier to overlook -- and the mistakes
> not only persist until the next edition, but often exist for decades,
> whereas finding a mistake in Wikipedia is fixable within five minutes.
and 3 others are added.
> The key is that an encyclopedia should never be the *end* of your
> research. It's basically just a place to look for key terms to research
actually what i do - to get the first glance on subject, THEN checking
more precisely.
but quite often it's crap even at the first glance
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