Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Apr 10 00:19:18 CDT 2012
While Wikipedia is a Igood initial source of information and links on the basics of non-controversial subjects, it is severely polluted by "gatekeepers" on any subject over which there is a degree of controversy. Wikipedia can never be a "trusted" source. -- Stuart On 9 Apr 2012 at 21:53, Jim Lawrence wrote: > I was quoting but the truth is if you see something that is obviously wrong > you can fix it. In theory, this means that the end results are more > accurate. > > Wikipedia is probably the largest encyclopedia ever created covering more > subjects and more people than any single source in history and it has the > largest group of experts ever assembled that monitor the input. > > If there are some issues with it, that are blatantly wrong, get busy...after > all eventually this may, eventually, be our single source of "trusted" > information. ;-) > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 2:26 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Ai and Robotix > > "deeper, more accurate"? > > ROTFLMAO > > On 9 Apr 2012 at 8:43, Jim Lawrence wrote: > > > the advent of Wikipedia proved that crowd-sourced knowledge curation > > provided broader, deeper, and more accurate results than the traditional > > small pool of experts..." > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >