[Sigia-l] Librarians 99% bad

Listera listera at rcn.com
Sun Dec 4 01:33:19 EST 2005


Jessica Baumgart, a news researcher at Harvard University, wrote that there
were librarians voluntarily working behind the scenes to check information
on Wikipedia. "But, honestly," she added, "in some ways, we're just as
fallible as everyone else in some areas because our own knowledge is limited
and we can't possibly fact-check everything."

Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar - New York Times
<http://tinyurl.com/e2spg>

Of course, algorithms never cheat, lie or make mistakes.

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Ziya

Any bug significantly advanced is indistinguishable from a design feature.






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