11-13-2006, 01:34 PM
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
Posts: 13,136
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Wikipedia is absolutely one of the internet's best results, a coalescing of the net's wisdom that has become a vital resource.
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I agree. Did you follow the link in my initial post? It pretty much disproves the criticisms of the collective structure Wikipedia utilizes.
"The fibs that professor Alexander Halavais slipped in were deviously subtle: that abolitionist Frederick Douglass, lived in Syracuse, N.Y. for four years, and that the Disney film The Rescuers Down Under won an Oscar for film editing. Both are false, but would you have doubted these "factoids"?
Halavais hypothesized that the obscure errors would "languish online for some time," the Chronicle reported. Instead the Wikipedia volunteers eliminated all the fabrications within three hours of being posted."
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