DU and Wikipedia?????

[emad]

It may not be a generally well known fact that a senior UK High Court judge last month hearing a gross defamation/libel/extortion lawsuit quoted MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller's professional opinion that Wikipedia is "the ultimate temple of disinformation in the internet's golden age of revisionism".

If she's right, then things are looking somewhat bleak round here....

[Goldmund]

1. What does that have to do with DU?

We're only using their software, not their content.

[emad]

2. If the one is tainted what does that say of the other??

[Goldmund]

14. It says that the other uses their software.

Even if Wikipedia is "tainted", the content is "tainted", not the API.

[htuttle]

3. I have to say, that's the stupidest thing I've read today

I don't even know what to say to this.

It's just a ridiculous notion that the software that runs a website determines it's credibility.

[emad]

4. Didn't say that. Quoted MI5's EMB on the quality of Wikipedia's

content. That she should make such a comment is relevant and notable.

It's software credibility can be assessed in the light of such remarks.

[qnr]

7. Yup and the hardware credibility of an automobile can be

determined by the people and luggage it is carrying.

[emad]

9. If the "message" is crap, what does that say about the

messenger???

[asthmaticeog]

11. Knock knock

Who's there?

Irony.

Irony who?

[qnr]

12. absolutely nothing.

If I own a notebook, whether I put a college thesis in it or fill it with doodles has absolutely no bearing on the nature of the notebook itself.

[RetroLounge]

15. Straight line of the year, that post is...

RL

[asthmaticeog]

5. And the MI5 has never spread disinformation?

Please. This is one person's comment, and it might not even be her opinion.

[emad]

8. It was her professional opinion when asked to testify in the High

Court lawsuit. Not some private whimsy.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. It has the Voice of the People.

And people in power don't like that.

Think. What should a HONEST encyclopedia have in the entry for, say, "Department of Homeland Security"?

[emad]

10. Junior's criminal records?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. For starters. (nt)

[RetroLounge]

16. What on earth are you talking about?

So if that report about Bush's ANG records was written using Microsoft Word, in your not-so-logical-world, all documents written in word are now suspect.

Sheesh...

:eyes:

RL