[WikiEN-l] Re: Can you trust Wikipedia?

Sat Oct 29 01:45:40 UTC 2005

Alphax wrote:

>Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
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>>On a trustworthiness scale of 0 to 10, I'd pesonally score the  Register
>>as 3, the Guardian as 9.5.
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>>And Slashdot as 2, Drudge as 4, and Wikipedia as, um, about a 7?
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>I'd actually give Wikipedia an 8-8.5 on trustworthiness. Writing quality
>is another thing entirely.
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It would be foolish in the extreme to try and rate Wikipedia as a whole, 
since unlike these other places it lacks anything like a uniform 
editorial hand. Rating individual articles makes sense, and I suppose 
you could generate various averages as approximations, but this only 
goes so far.

(as we await the debut of an article rating feature)

--Michael Snow