Re: Advice on Athlon 64 upgrade to replace Sempron 64

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

there was an article recently (last month or so) in Wired that did some
statistcal analysis of wiki pedia and IIRC basically if tis a poular topic
its more or less sel policing so accurate, obscure topics no

On 7/26/06, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Dan
> >
> > A *general* question of wikipedia:  Does anyone care to estimate the
> > accuracy of information presented in wikipedia?  Is there a vetting
> > process
> > for verifying information?  My take has been to use wikipedia as a
> > starting
> > point and let other "verifiable" sources of information (hopefully
> linked
> > to
> > in the wiki) prove the accuracy.
>
> Be careful how you ask this question, Dan.  You may incur the wrath of the
> "social organismists" (a word I just now made up).  In general, the
> Wikipedia is looked upon as one of THE standards by which you can measure
> the overall accuracy of a social network.  The Wikipedia is "vetted" by
> the
> community; if someone posts something wrong, someone else will fix it.
>
> In regard to things technical, or "neutrally factual", the Wikipedia does
> a
> pretty good job overall.  I use it much like you do; I get initial
> information and then do my own verification.  I've found its data to be
> pretty darned accurate.
>
> Things that are more political or ideological in nature can be somewhat
> more
> biased.
>
> Joe
>
>
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