Tuesday, November 16, 2004

A Handiwipe, Please

I’ve visited the Wikipedia site maybe half-a-dozen times since it went online.  I most recently visited the site to see what was posted for the word glaze, though I cannot remember why, but I was surprised to see that Wikipedia made no mention of window glazing, though it mentioned many other definitions for the word glaze.

Robert McHenry has penned a piece, posted at Tech Central Station, regarding Wikipedia which is titled “The Faith-Based Encyclopedia." Though McHenry may be biased regarding Wikipedia, he previously was the Editor in Chief of the Encyclopædia Britannica, personally, I think the title should have been more in line with McHenry’s parting paragraph.

"The user who visits Wikipedia to learn about some subject, to confirm some matter of fact, is rather in the position of a visitor to a public restroom. It may be obviously dirty, so that he knows to exercise great care, or it may seem fairly clean, so that he may be lulled into a false sense of security. What he certainly does not know is who has used the facilities before him.

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by John Venlet on 11/16 at 05:11 AM
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