Following on from the LA Times wikitorial experiement I mentioned above, there's another article on it in the Guardian
today if anyone is interested.
I mention it because it has some comments on reliability germane to CRL's post above - here's the relevant excerpt:
Quote:
"Wikis", based on the Hawaiian word "wiki wiki" for "quick", are online communities that encourage users to collectively write and edit articles, and even override and delete other contributors' work. The end product can be thought of as a community's shared knowledge.
There are wiki cookbooks, collections of quotations and an encyclopedia.
The best-known wiki, Wikipedia, is an online encyclopedia where any visitor can add, change and erase someone else's entry.
Some contributors have attempted to impose their personal viewpoints - for instance, by replacing an article on abortion with the word "murder" written 143 times.
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The description of a wiki is vastly superior to my attempt earlier in this thread, notwithstanding the split infinitive
*shudder*