Comments on: The La Conchita Mudslide: Memorials & Respect http://heliolith.com/archives/2005/01/18/la-conchita-landslide-update/ The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. - Pete Seeger Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:56:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: daveb http://heliolith.com/archives/2005/01/18/la-conchita-landslide-update/#comment-353 Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:03:10 +0000 http://heliolith.com/archives/2005/01/18/la-conchita-landslide-update/#comment-353 I use WIKI at least several times daily, but I don't always trust it. To quote an <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66210,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2">article in WIRED</a> that I thought summed it up well: <em>Any member of the Wikipedia community can write an entry, which then can be edited by other members. Entries are never finished, given that anyone can make edits to any of them. But that also means there is no final authority who signs off on the accuracy of entries; veracity is assumed to come from the self-policing nature of the community. Yet that lack of official vetting is central to many of the questions facing Wikipedia today. To academics like Danah Boyd, a graduate student and instructor at the University of California at Berkeley, that is precisely the problem: Wikipedia, for all its breadth of coverage, cannot claim that each and every one of its entries meets any bottom-line standard for accuracy.</em> I use WIKI at least several times daily, but I don’t always trust it. To quote an article in WIRED that I thought summed it up well:
Any member of the Wikipedia community can write an entry, which then can be edited by other members. Entries are never finished, given that anyone can make edits to any of them. But that also means there is no final authority who signs off on the accuracy of entries; veracity is assumed to come from the self-policing nature of the community.

Yet that lack of official vetting is central to many of the questions facing Wikipedia today. To academics like Danah Boyd, a graduate student and instructor at the University of California at Berkeley, that is precisely the problem: Wikipedia, for all its breadth of coverage, cannot claim that each and every one of its entries meets any bottom-line standard for accuracy.

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