On Friday 05 May 2006 12:58, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > 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..
Got to agree there. Ever posted something in a NG that wasn't quite correct? How quickly those who know better jump in.... Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
