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Post by Orange on Apr 9, 2010 11:46:06 GMT -5
when Wikipedia stops letting people edit it, and goes to a staff only type layout? I think in the future, maybe not the near future, but 10 years from now we could see Wikipedia not allowing people to edit information, and hire people to manage the site and the pages. Could anybody else see this happening?
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Apr 9, 2010 11:48:41 GMT -5
They tried it, didn't work. Too expensive, and slow.
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Post by ToyfareMark on Apr 9, 2010 12:13:26 GMT -5
Its like I always say about Wikipedia. It's a great starting point for knowledge, terrible ending point. Allthough to be fair its more accurate than people give it credit for. Its the people edit in stuff like "Thomas Jefferson dug the black poon" that gives it the rep it has.
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Post by Orange on Apr 9, 2010 12:34:37 GMT -5
Its like I always say about Wikipedia. It's a great starting point for knowledge, terrible ending point. Allthough to be fair its more accurate than people give it credit for. Its the people edit in stuff like "Thomas Jefferson dug the black poon" that gives it the rep it has. Very true, but at least when people go and mess it up it seems like it gets fixed fairly fast, at least in the pages I have seen screwed up. Maybe sometime they'll make it members only, which really wouldn't fix the vandalizing problem but maybe it'll eliminate some of it. You can always tell when a page is intentionally messed up at least. |
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