http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/12/03/wikipedia-set-to-get-easier-to-edit-thanks-to-stanton-donation/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/03/wikipedia-set-to-get-easier-to-edit-thanks-to-stanton-donation/comment-page-1/#comment-150283 DavidB Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:03:18 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=9708#comment-150283 Making it easier to edit is NOT going to cure the misinformation/vandalism problem. If anything, by making it easier to edit things, its going to make it FAR easier for the casual vandal to do wholesale damage. There's a reason why site like WebMD are trusted and Wikipedia are not! Crowdsourcing such a thing unfortunately means the info will devovle to the lowest denominator, not evolve to the highest. The "forces of good and right" will keep up for a while with correcting incorrect entries, but doing so for FREE they will eventually tire of it and move aon to something else. It happened with Gopher board, it happend to Usenet, it'll happen here too. UNLESS they can find some way to crowdsource an editorial feature. Making it easier to edit is NOT going to cure the misinformation/vandalism problem. If anything, by making it easier to edit things, its going to make it FAR easier for the casual vandal to do wholesale damage. There’s a reason why site like WebMD are trusted and Wikipedia are not! Crowdsourcing such a thing unfortunately means the info will devovle to the lowest denominator, not evolve to the highest. The “forces of good and right” will keep up for a while with correcting incorrect entries, but doing so for FREE they will eventually tire of it and move aon to something else. It happened with Gopher board, it happend to Usenet, it’ll happen here too. UNLESS they can find some way to crowdsource an editorial feature.

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