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Urban Word of the Day www.urbandictionary.comAugust 08, 2006: wikiality Reality as decided on by majority rule.... Still, Wikipedia has been shown to contain no more errors than a typical hardcover encyclopedia
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> Reality as decided on by majority rule....
Oh, that's what post-modernists call consensual reality I think.
> Still, Wikipedia has been shown to contain no more errors than a typical hardcover encyclopedia
I believe that. But that won't change the minds of certain information sources that, by virtue of publishing re-written coporate press releases, fancy themselves truthier. I refer, for example, to the writers at 'The Register'.
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The wiki folks themselves held a conference last weekend to discuss this and other issues. If any of y'all are interested, here's the link: http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule
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I've been wondering about something for a long time, and I might as well ask about it now: does wiki have some special meaning, perhaps internet-wise? I know wi-fi does, though I keep forgetting what it stands for...
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Reality as decided on by majority rule....
Still, Wikipedia has been shown to contain no more errors than a typical hardcover encyclopedia
Actually, that is definitely not true. Wikipedia made much of the claim, but the methodology was shown to be suspect, and the recording and definition of "errors" was extremely subjective. Britannica even threatened legal action against those responsible for the claim.
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> the recording and definition of "errors"
Well, I can imagine. Many of the 'errors' in Britannica are those related to the fact that it is not up to date I suppose. For Britannica these are, of course, not errors - the entries are just dated. They are only wrong (and thus 'errors') to anyone who wants to use the thing as a reference that is abreast of developments. This is where wiki is 'more right';-)
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> the recording and definition of "errors"
Well, I can imagine. Many of the 'errors' in Britannica are those related to the fact that it is not up to date I suppose. For Britannica these are, of course, not errors - the entries are just dated. They are only wrong (and thus 'errors') to anyone who wants to use the thing as a reference that is abreast of developments. This is where wiki is 'more right';-)
Now you're being VERY disingenuous. It was the article's writers who decided what they would class as errors, in order to make the outcome as favourable as possible to Wikipedia. While there is no better resource for details on the Klingon agricultural calendar or the history of the Xemacs/Emacs war, it's still a dodgy reference source, poorly written, poorly researched, and as your (almost pavlovian) reaction shows, manically sensitive to any criticism. And I say this as someone who uses it every day.
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I've noticed errors in Wikipedia. Yeah well. It's handy.
Now that "wi-fi", wireless fidelity, has been mentioned - does it seem to anyone else an inappropriate, inaccurate term? Wireless is accurate, but where does fidelity enter into it?
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>where does fidelity enter into it?
what can one expect from a marketing takeoff on HiFi?
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