Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:00:31 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Svein Halvor Halvorsen" <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>, "Lee Capps" <lcapps@cteresource.org> Cc: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEACCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <462F5ECF.1040508@lvor.halvorsen.cc>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Svein Halvor > Halvorsen > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:00 AM > To: Lee Capps > Cc: Thomas Dickey; Bill Moran; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Wikipedia's perfection (was Re: Discussion of the relative > advantages/disadvantages of PAE (was Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?)) > > > Bill Moran wrote: > >> A friend of mine going for his Dr. at CMU (Patrick Wagstrom: GNOME guy) > >> describes an exercise where a professor intentionally injected false > >> information into Wikipedia, then gave his students a research > > > And also: Where is this professor's ethics? Does he also misinform the > students in class, only to later accuse them of not verifying the facts? > And did he even think about the fact that others may have read his > misinformation? Why does this professor think that his agenda is more > important than Wikipedia's? Did he later correct the articles? > > I hope this professor got some sort of reaction from his University due > to his unethical attitude towards openness, knowledge and science. > I'm afraid I have to agree. The Prof was as lazy as his students. The world abounds in misinformation, it doesen't take a lot of effort to find it. The prof could have spent the hour he spent forging info in Wikipedia, finding already forged misinformation and having his students research that. He could have started at the Scientology website, for example, then moved on to PETA and the NRA. Ted
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