Re: Is there a genealogy Wiki anywhere?

Don Moody wrote:

> 
> "Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Is there a Wiki for genealogy anywhere?
>>
>> I haven't seen such a thing mentioned in the newsgroups, but it
>> seems a
>> logical kind of thing to have.
>>
>> About 20 years ago, before the Web got going, I played around with
>> hypertext
>> using TurboPascal, and created a kind of beginners guide for
>> genealogy. In
>> those days such things were called "expert systems".
>>
>> It seems to me that a Wiki could do the same thing, but on a far
>> bigger scale,
>> and with far more information. It could be a truly expert system,
>> making use
>> of all sorts of people's expertise.
>>
>> So I'm wondering why I haven't heard of such a thing.
> 
> 
> 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. snip .....

Do you care about the history of mistakes, omissions, downright
stupidities
written by experts?
You can fill books with those.
So I rather have a source that can be updated/corrected very quickly, than
an encyclopedia that is "written in stone"

Herman Viaene

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