Re: Is there a genealogy Wiki anywhere?

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My understanding on the way you think is that I bet your thoughts for
example on Wikepedia is based on a misconception. You need to refer to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
to get a little
understanding of it's limitations and authenticity.

There is nothing to indicate that individuals who write articles for
Wikepedia are not experts on their own field. I for one use Wikepedia
as a secondary useful source for a particular area of personal
interest, I don't accept Wikepedia as being 100% correct and check
other sources. However whenever I find an error in Wikepedia I'm able
to correct it immediately, any amendments are trackable and can be
undone if need be. For my own particular field of interest I have only
found a small number of errors in alarge number of Wikepedia articles.

The beauty of Wikepedia is that it can be changed in the blink of an
eye, I would guess far quicker than if it was left to your experts to
dither and dally on deciding whether to accept the changes if they
were in charge of their own on-line encyclopaedia.

And by the way it is free.

Allan Raymond




On May 7, 7:42=A0pm, "Don Moody" <dpmo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> I hope you never hear of such a thing, if by a Wiki you mean the
> original model where anybody can submit anything and muck about with
> the submissions of others but there is no expert refereeing and no
> rejection of opinionated nonsense.
>
> If you want an on-line encyclopaedia of real worth, it has got to be
> written by experts, refereed by experts, edited by experts, and
> maintained in an ongoing way by experts. Those experts, being human
> beings, will need money to live on. A hell of a lot of money for a
> hell of a lot of expertise.
>
> Where is that money going to come from? =A0And if your answer is Pay Per
> View, then who is going to provide the many millions of capital to set
> the thing up before the first viewer pays?
>
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