[WikiEN-l] ABC News: Silicon Insider on Robert McHenry

Fri Nov 19 03:56:18 UTC 2004

From: "Rowan Collins" <rowan.collins at gmail.com>
>>    http://abcnews.go.com/Business/print?id=88655
> I love the way Malone throws everything right back the other way; a
> nice demonstration of the use of 'spin', I feel. E.g. "approaching
> 400,000 pages" vs McHenry's back-handed "over 382,000 pages that
> were thought "probably" to be encyclopedic articles".

His ending "crude analogy" was on the mark too. ;-)

"...  Finally, as long as Mr. McHenry is going to end on a crude analogy, so 
will I: using a traditional encyclopedia is like owning a nice, well-built 
automobile that, unfortunately, has the seats and mirrors locked in place, the 
radio frozen on one station, the throttle welded in one position -- and the car 
is capable of only driving to a limited number of places predetermined by the 
manufacturer. ... Frankly, I'd rather pee in a public toilet."

> May the best man win, I guess - but lets hope we make some
> serious progress on validation soon, to give them an extra weapon
> or two...

FWIW, I think those "mark article as 1.0 version" and similar proposals, would 
go a long way there.

regards, sabre23t =^.^=

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