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    Posted: April 21 2005 at 18:05

questions:
1. do you personally use this resource ?
2. how much do you trust the quality of the content ?
3. have you personally made any contributions to it ?
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Points: 166178 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 18:18

1. Yes i have.

2. I trust it to an extent. They do allow just anybody to go about and just change things. I wonder how that works. I mean, anybody can go and change very valueable and correct information and make it into a steaming heap of lies and irrealavance. I don't like that, and i can't honestly say that i think it works like that. Does anybody know how?

3. No i do not.
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Points: 227 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2005 at 18:20
1. No, i don't
2. I'm blue-eyed, so I probably would if I ever got to use their services.
3. Me & contributing. Hardly even worth mentioning in the same sentence...

I do have a (rather vague) idea what wikipedia is, though...

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Points: 1835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 08:02

1. Yes.

2. The quality of the content of the things I have consulted has been high. I normally consult several references to be sure of my facts and, to date, the information in Wikipedia has tallied well with other sources, and in some cases provided more information than the other sources. Also, the discussion tab often quotes posts pointing out apparent discrepancies, errors or omissions (if any). One's entries are monitored (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction) so abuse will be picked up (not necessarily instantly), but honesty and responsibility are two of the cornerstones of this wonderful project.

3. I have only corrected something (a typographical error that resulted in a link not working).

Why do you ask, utah_man?

 
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Points: 2383 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 08:40
Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

I trust it to an extent. They do allow just anybody to go about and just change things. I wonder how that works.



It doesn't always work. One good example is the battle between evolutionists and creationists there. Whenever someone writes something about evolution or just about anything related to it, there's always some fundamentalist ready to go and mess it up.  (ButI haven't checked that thing out for a while so I don't know how they handle the situation these days..)

But other than that, I've checked many things from Wikipedia and the information there seems valid, so I very much trust in it.


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1. Yes, a little.

2. Not totally, but it's well "policed," I believe.

3. No.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2005 at 11:14

I use it...

...and abuse it. I vandalize on occasion. ie. Once I put a pic of a whale in the kirstie alley page.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2005 at 10:41
I,ve never even heard of it! Wicked what?
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Points: 4097 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2005 at 12:54

Originally posted by utah_man utah_man wrote:


1. do you personally use this resource ?

Yes, and I used to a lot more

Originally posted by utah_man utah_man wrote:

2. how much do you trust the quality of the content ?

Very much so, a magazine monitored it and the average clearup time of vanadlism is five minutes.

Originally posted by utah_man utah_man wrote:


3. have you personally made any contributions to it ?

Yes, on a few things (username: goosegoosegoose)

 

for anybody wondering what the mystical wonder is:

www.wikipedia.org

en.wikipedia.org (english)
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