Posted by Adam Quinan on August 01, 2008 at 16:55:44 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: On Wikis and Blogs (was Arthur Ransome Wikia) posted by Mike Dennis on August 01, 2008 at 16:15:59:
Mike,
Once again you are making an unfounded allegation. The Wikipedia article on the Holocaust (see link below) does not give the views of the deniers. In fact it is protected so that only registered users can edit it. Please be careful before you make such inflammatory and inaccurate statements.
Inaccuracies in Wikipedia do not usually last more than a few minutes or possibly hours in relatively frequently read articles because normally someone who has the best interest of the project at heart will quickly find and revert the changes.
However, I do agree that in the more obscure articles, someone with an agenda or a mere vandal could make edits which won't be corrected quickly. Thease are the articles that you should be cautious about.
While you may make jibes about about the camel being a horse designed by a committee, if I was traversing the Arabian desert I would far rather have a camel than a horse.
Wikipedia and other wikis are more like the Theory of Evolution, changes are made and those which are beneficial survive, like the camel in the desert and those which are not get eradicated.