Crawford Kilian points to a Tyee article about a local Wikipedia watchdog:
“Where is truthful information?” he wonders aloud. “I don’t have a clue. I don’t trust everything I read in the newspaper, I don’t trust everything I read in Wikipedia, I don’t trust everything I see on TV. The only way you can verify and know for a total fact something happened is if you were there and witnessed it. The nature of information has changed.”
Like nearly every Tyee article I read, it’s about 25% too long, but still an interesting profile piece.
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This brought to mind a Zen proverb I have as one of the quotes on my site.
“Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.”
Good quote from the article; it summarizes one of the reasons I disagree with the popular objection to Wikipedia, that its content is all subjective truth. It’s a factual statement in some sense, but I think it’s also factual about *all* of our knowledge, other than direct experience (and even memory has its own subjective-ness built in, but that’s another story).
Well said, Ross.
I’m just surprised that it took several years and an 18 year-old hacker to automate the moderation. In my mind, that might be the best feature of Wikipedia, and a sorely needed functionality for much of the web. I wonder if he can market that somehow to filter forums and blogs.