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September 30, 2005
Garbage in, garbage out
C|Net has posted an article about some guy that posted a draft of his article on Wikipedia to prove that lots of eyeballs and keyboards would not fix all bugs.
He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site. .... The idea is that, despite the fact that anyone can work on any article, Wikipedia's content is self-cleaning because its community keeps a close eye on the accuracy of articles and, in most cases, acts quickly to fix errors that find their way into individual entries.
Huh? That's like saying open sourcing stuff doesn't work because not all of the projects we started on SourceForge have grown into software industries. Why would the rest of the world suddenly have infinite time to clean up your valueless mess?
Posted by Mark at September 30, 2005 02:34 PM
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