Comments on: How to create false knowledge http://valueandveracity.com/2008/04/19/how-to-create-false-knowledge/ comments on economics, policy, and philosophy Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:50:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Lantrix http://valueandveracity.com/2008/04/19/how-to-create-false-knowledge/#comment-28 Lantrix Sun, 04 May 2008 05:04:41 +0000 http://valueandveracity.com/?p=19#comment-28 Thanks for the trackback. The really good thing is that when I got slash dotted, some other Wikipedia editor quickly removed this information from Wikipedia with comments stating that unless Baron Cohen was on record as saying this, then it will be left out of the article. Thanks for the trackback. The really good thing is that when I got slash dotted, some other Wikipedia editor quickly removed this information from Wikipedia with comments stating that unless Baron Cohen was on record as saying this, then it will be left out of the article.

]]> By: Jamie http://valueandveracity.com/2008/04/19/how-to-create-false-knowledge/#comment-27 Jamie Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:41:34 +0000 http://valueandveracity.com/?p=19#comment-27 Well, except it's been fixed and now wikipedia no longer includes the false info. In the thread someone links to "Wikipedia has many rules. Instead of following every rule, it is acceptable to use common sense as you go about editing. Being too wrapped up in rules can cause you to lose perspective, so there are times when it is better to ignore a rule. If you use common sense when editing, you are unlikely to do anything wrong." The common sense in question being that once they learned the newspaper articles sourced wiki, they ceased to be accepted as valid sources. I think this is in the general category that wiki requires a significantly larger number of hours to be put in by sensible people with good faith than by the other type of people. Essentially, you're dealing with very sophisticated vandalism here, and vandalism gets fixed. In any case, cool story. Well, except it’s been fixed and now wikipedia no longer includes the false info. In the thread someone links to

“Wikipedia has many rules. Instead of following every rule, it is acceptable to use common sense as you go about editing. Being too wrapped up in rules can cause you to lose perspective, so there are times when it is better to ignore a rule. If you use common sense when editing, you are unlikely to do anything wrong.”

The common sense in question being that once they learned the newspaper articles sourced wiki, they ceased to be accepted as valid sources.

I think this is in the general category that wiki requires a significantly larger number of hours to be put in by sensible people with good faith than by the other type of people. Essentially, you’re dealing with very sophisticated vandalism here, and vandalism gets fixed.

In any case, cool story.

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