[WikiEN-l] Everyone's favorite FUD-master is at it again

Sun Mar 20 12:05:21 UTC 2005

Everyone's favorite FUD-master is at it again --- 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0503200191mar20,1,26199.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
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/ A similar hyperbole surrounds such projects as the Wikipedia, a free 
online encyclopedia open to all. The Wikipedia's apologists emphasize 
the great number of volunteers who have taken part in the project and 
the number of entries they have contributed. They emphasize also the 
communal nature of the undertaking, in which anyone with a better 
understanding of a subject, or a bigger ax to grind, can edit what 
someone else has created. Their prime article of faith is that this 
openness will inevitably lead to a high level of accuracy and quality.
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Robert McHenry is former editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and is 
the author of "How to Know."

/This is the same guy who called us the Faith-based encyclopedia and 
compared us to a public toilet- 
http://www.techcentralstation.com/111504A.html

--Mark