On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
They referred me to a page on the subject on... linuxmafia.com. Yep, IBM Corporation referred me to _me_.
That's hardly surprising. None of the problems that have been pointed out with Wikipedia are new. People haven't changed much in 10,000+ years. The problems in question are all people problems. Paying people doesn't make things magically become better, it just means that you have a much smaller number of people while also having a few of the most unreliable people removed from the pool. The question is, does allowing everyone access (including lots of trolls and idiots) give a better result than having a select number of people with a smaller (but non zero) incidence of trolls and idiots? It's probably worth considering that if people from this list were to be hired to answer technical questions then who might get a job and who might be excluded. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/