Staff: After ever-so-slowly fixing spurious allegations against John Seigenthaler… USA Today’s founding editorial director and a former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors… that claimed he was a suspect in both Kennedy assassinations, Wikipedia says it’s tightening up its editorial standards. Now you gotta register to write an article which, we assume, is Wiki weasoning for how one grants academically-rigorous credibility to the masses. It all makes sense, in a Wiki sorta way.
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December 6th, 2005 at 7:38 pm
per Robert McHenry, former Editor in Chief, the Encyclop�ia Britannica
R. McHenry, frmr Editor; Encyclop�ia Britannica: To put the Wikipedia method in its simplest terms: 1. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, can submit an article and it will be published. 2. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, can edit that article, and the modifications will stand until further modified. Then comes the crucial and entirely faith-based step: 3. Some unspecified quasi-Darwinian process will assure that those writings and editings by contributors of greatest expertise will survive; articles will eventually reach a steady state that corresponds to the highest degree of accuracy. Does someone actually believe this? Evidently so. Why? It’s very hard to say.
December 8th, 2005 at 8:14 am
A. Einstein
A hundred monkeys at a hundred keyboards are still just a pack of dumb monkeys. But a million monkeys at a million keyboards? Wikipedia.