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The Trouble with Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale

July 1, 2010 - 12:00 am - by John Rosenthal
Ryan
2010-07-01 12:36:14

I’m an engineer… so that means I have to fix things when I see something that is broken. Here is a broken system. Two people fighting over how they thing some article should be written. Currently what is written is determined by whomever has the most time to changes the article more often. That hardly seems logical.

This should be easy to fix using the swarm mind. Wiki should keep it’s rev history and color code that which has been changed the last few times. That way the reader could see what has been changed and what it was changed from. If something keeps getting changed more then a few times by the same people it is captured into a different page as a “Contention.” Each side can write an short summery of what they want written there and WHY. Neither of them are allowed to alter the others argument. Let the reader decide for themselves.