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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Friday 05 May 2006 15:19, Farhan Ahmed wrote: |
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> (snip) |
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> > |
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> > PS: Your quote in previous message about gentoo-wiki is not true.. |
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> > Although I agree that the Flags I quoted were unstable, you cannot say |
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> > gentoo-wiki cannot be trusted just because it can be edited by anyone.. |
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> > If you are true then you cannot trust any Free Software because it too |
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> > can be edited.. Agreed that someone might post wrong info, but it's even |
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> > more likely that someone will recognize it and correct it.. This is the |
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> > beauty of open source.. |
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> it is much easier to vandalize a wiki then software. |
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> I, you, anyone can get one or two sentences into any wiki article, that look |
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> sane, but are totally wrong. And nobody but an expert would find it. |
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> gentoowiki is nice, but you always have to turn your brain on, before doing, |
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> what is written there. |
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> The same is true for wikipedia - don't think, that everything written there is |
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> true. Blatant vandalization is easy to spot. But subtile misinformation, that |
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> is the problem. And it is a big one. |
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But it'll be corrected nonetheless.. :) |
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Farhan Ahmed |
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Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
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GPG Key : 8BE90E98 |
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WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed |
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IRC Nick : farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net) |
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