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On Friday 05 May 2006 19:58, Farhan Ahmed wrote: |
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> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > (snip) |
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> > There are cases, where misonformation was not found for month, even |
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> > longer - and there are a lot of very demanding and obscure articles, |
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> > would you really bet, that every case of voluntary misinformation can and |
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> > will be found? |
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> In that case you should stop using GNU/OSS software, as you have no way |
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> of knowing every piece of code using your brains.. Have you ever audited |
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> kernel before updating? No.. But still you update.. Why? Because you |
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> trust that someone will point some malicious code, if any, before it |
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> comes to your machine.. Likewise, if someone reads the article and he |
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> sees some inconsistency, he'll in all likelihood correct it (just in |
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> wiki's, not entirely possible in "Reliable Articles By Experts").. |
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not everybody has write access to the cvs/svn/whatever tree. |
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In all software projects, only devs have write access. Everybody else can send |
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in patches, but they can not just edit the sources. And I trust the devs, |
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because if shit happens, everybody will be able to see, who did it. |
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With wikipedia, everybody can go and edit what they want, when they want, |
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where they want. |
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Why don't you google? Hidden vandalism and misinformation are known problems. |
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There are even cases, where someone corrected an article, and an admin undid |
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the corrections, because people are not allowed to edit their biographies. |
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Even if there are blatant lies and errors. |
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You can use |
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http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Main_Page |
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as a starting point. |
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