Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > (snip) > > > > PS: Your quote in previous message about gentoo-wiki is not true.. > > Although I agree that the Flags I quoted were unstable, you cannot say > > gentoo-wiki cannot be trusted just because it can be edited by anyone.. > > If you are true then you cannot trust any Free Software because it too > > can be edited.. Agreed that someone might post wrong info, but it's even > > more likely that someone will recognize it and correct it.. This is the > > beauty of open source.. > > it is much easier to vandalize a wiki then software. > > I, you, anyone can get one or two sentences into any wiki article, that look > sane, but are totally wrong. And nobody but an expert would find it. > > gentoowiki is nice, but you always have to turn your brain on, before doing, > what is written there. > The same is true for wikipedia - don't think, that everything written there > is > true. Blatant vandalization is easy to spot. But subtile misinformation, that > is the problem. And it is a big one.
But it'll be corrected nonetheless.. :) Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick : farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net)
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