[WikiEN-l] Re: Friday's featured article

Wed Mar 30 19:09:31 UTC 2005

--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> Obviously not.  This is the only encyclopedia in which it's possible for a
> random editor to create an article with the name "Daniel Mayer needs to
> remember that this is a Wiki".  I don't know how long you expect to get
> away with this odd pretense that Wikipedia is like other encyclopedias.

It is more up to date and has a great deal more content. It also has a much
better hypertext format (lot's of links esp) and IMO, its articles simply looks
a lot nicer and are easier to use. Other than that, to the reader, it is pretty
much like any other encyclopedia - a place to get quick facts on topics.
However, it's reliability has also been questioned due to the way it is
created. Making it fun to purposely deceive readers does not help either that
perception or the kernel of truth behind it. 

-- mav

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