Oct 19, 20071
Can we trust an anonymous, collaborative, unprecedented Internet-scale encyclopedia such as Wikipedia?
Note: This entry was initially going to be a comment to the Cognitive Daily post, "Is there wisdom in crowds?" But as you can see, it is far too long to be a comment :) The precursor to Wikipedia was Nupedia. It was run by Larry Sanger, a proper epistemologist. It had a seven point review process, as stringent as the Encyclopedia Britannica, if not moreso. Over three ...