[WikiEN-l] Guardian article about Wikipedia

Mon Oct 24 15:19:52 UTC 2005

On 10/24/05, slimvirgin at gmail.com <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,16541,1599325,00.html
>

Interesting. I'm not familiar with any of the articles except the
Dylan one, but there are no surprises.  There are problems of balance,
smaller but still significant problems of accuracy, and the prose
style isn't up to professional standards.

A whole section on the spelling of the word "encyclopedia"?   This is
one of the problems that are endemic to wikis.  Relatively trivial
topics become extended into a pseudo-debate.