Wikipeida wars- II
the issue is the "accuracy" of wikipedia, the free internet encyclopedia created and edited by users-
can it be accurate? is any encyclopedia accurate?
as wikipedia is created and re-created nearly daily, it seems to m that it reaches a fairly high degree of consensus
the comments here are interesting also.
Wikipedia and the nature of truth | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "You can argue that epistemological revisionism goes on all the time. As a kid, I remember thumbing through a 1920s encyclopedia when I found a discussion of different racial categories. Someone reading the entry decades later would have found the assertions in that article to be nonsensical, if not borderline racist. But when the book was published, the people who might have corrected the record had no power over the publishing company printing up the product line. With the Internet, anyone with an online connection can chime in. "
Friday, December 02, 2005
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