[Murg] who's the author(s) of the wikipedia article?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:31:21PM +0100, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:

> Is finding out who wrote the entry so important? On Wikipedia all

Because I'm interested in who's doing transhumanist publishing. There aren't
all that many people who do, so everyone is important. If nobody here 'fesses
up, it must be somebody from a different watering hole. He mentioned
'infomorph', which is Charles Platt's coinage, so it might be someone from
the cryonics cluster. Or not.

> users who think to know some area well enough are encouraged to write
> new entries. If other users know better, they should just update and
> improve the entry.

Yep, that's what I just suggested.

> There was an article a few days ago saying that the big problem of
> Wikipedia is lack of a strong vetting system. If it had a vetting
> system, someone who is recognized as an expert would have to approve
> the entry.

So who's an expert in transhumanism? Or uploading? Or nanotechnology?
Would seem to depend on whom you ask, obviously. 

I don't know who is it in the end measures the article quality in Wikipedia
space, and decides to roll back to an earlier entry, but I'm suspecting 
it's someone being at the right time and the right place, i.e. by default.

Mass voting is not an answer, and maintaining version histories, cum forking,
with a custom view for each user by automagic clustering is not something
existing today (and making it scale would be a bitch).

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