Revdocs on a wiki

[Judy Perry]

Yeah, unfortunately, it's the same problem as the web, writ albeit a tad
bit smaller.

In a take-home exam essay, I had several students providing citations from
wikipedias.  Even worse, after we had discussed in class Microsoft's
stance on their errors in Encarta being less important than Encarta's
being politically palatable, a few cited Encarta.

:-(

This is one of the problems of the illusion of quality that computer
technologies make possible.

Sigh.

Judy

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, David Bovill wrote:

> On 28 Oct 2005, at 07:58, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
> > Just to play devil's advocate:
> >
> > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/>
>
> Yes - good article - one of the very rare anti-wikipedia articles.
> Goes nowhere to say why or to suggest solutions though.