Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > (snip) > > There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even longer - > and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, would you really > bet, that every case of voluntary misinformation can and will be found?
In that case you should stop using GNU/OSS software, as you have no way of knowing every piece of code using your brains.. Have you ever audited kernel before updating? No.. But still you update.. Why? Because you trust that someone will point some malicious code, if any, before it comes to your machine.. Likewise, if someone reads the article and he sees some inconsistency, he'll in all likelihood correct it (just in wiki's, not entirely possible in "Reliable Articles By Experts").. Just as an example, compare Wikipedia spelling accuracy to other sources, you'll find that Wikipedia is far better.. When thousands of people are editing a article there will always be some odd person who will post misinformation, but how many people will correct it? Almost everyone who points that misinformation.. Almost every book we read contain some mistakes, so should we stop reading book or stop learning from it.. But at least with wiki pages one has the option of correcting the mistakes live.. If you don't trust the community that's doing this great work of writing free software, sharing their knowledge in Wiki's, then what's the point of using GNU/Linux? I'm not saying that you are entirely wrong, but your assumption that one must not follow wiki's just because they are world editable is wrong Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick : farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net)
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