Thursday, November 24, 2011

What steps could an open-editing wiki take to create and maintain credibility and correctness?

Of the suggestions that you make, do you foresee Wikipedia implementing any of them at any point in the future?|||First, requiring people to use their real names. Second, identifying the expertise of contributors in order to utilize them in those areas and not waste them on things they don't know anything about.





I don't foresee Wikipedia ever implementing either of those steps.|||A simple and key step would be to implement the "Real Name" identification system that Amazon uses. That way, the content published would be traced back to a verified person who is at least old enough to have a credit card.





Wikipedia will never implement such a measure.|||Wikipedia's problem is all the drama. Unless they wanted Wikipedia to not be an MMPORPG, no amount of features will help Wikipedia create, much less maintain, credibility and correctness.

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