Monday, March 13, 2006
Wounding Wikipedia (continued)
Compare the "authoritative figure" doing the editing versus an editor. What is the difference?
Wounding Wikipedia (continued): "I totally buy into the idea that the aggregated knowledge of the entire world has to be better than the knowledge of a few 'experts' who put together encyclopedias, which apparently the schools believe are trustworthy. Now we all know that at any particular time, there can be some inaccurate stuff in Wikipedia and that's certainly a problem."
Randall in the New York Times suggests that Wikipedia needs to take one more page out of the open source playbook and give each page in Wikipedia an authoritative figure who has the power to decide what edits to allow and which to disallow.
Jeff Bates of the Open Source Technology Group (slashdot, sourcefourge, etc) is quoted in Randall's column as saying:
In every open-source project, he said, there is "a benevolent dictator" who ultimately takes responsibility, even though the code is contributed by many. Good stuff results only if "someone puts their name on it."
Wounding Wikipedia (continued): "I totally buy into the idea that the aggregated knowledge of the entire world has to be better than the knowledge of a few 'experts' who put together encyclopedias, which apparently the schools believe are trustworthy. Now we all know that at any particular time, there can be some inaccurate stuff in Wikipedia and that's certainly a problem."
Randall in the New York Times suggests that Wikipedia needs to take one more page out of the open source playbook and give each page in Wikipedia an authoritative figure who has the power to decide what edits to allow and which to disallow.
Jeff Bates of the Open Source Technology Group (slashdot, sourcefourge, etc) is quoted in Randall's column as saying:
In every open-source project, he said, there is "a benevolent dictator" who ultimately takes responsibility, even though the code is contributed by many. Good stuff results only if "someone puts their name on it."
