Re: 19.474 Wikipedia: not such a wonderful world? (fwd)

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Apparently no one has completed the Alan Sondheim stub... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime While this story is atrocious & somewhat predictable given the format, the idea that it's possible to generate a people's encyclopedia is still a useful ideal.  Having spent a bunch of time observing the process that entries go thru, on a practical everyday level, decision-making is routinely an exercise in collective fascism. On Dec 4, 2005, at 11:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/4/05 11:28:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is the other side of things - people look to Wikipedia and there are groups of people deliberately putting up falsehoods i agree with that, but reputation is apparently already weakening the reliance on wik if smart people such as are occasionally found on this list are informed of the glaring abuse potential.  soon it will have a fox news aura.