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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:48:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081211054829.GG31807@hermes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <491A1AC0.7010602@gentoo.org>

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On 16:52 Tue 11 Nov     , Joe Peterson wrote:
> As for Wikipedia, there is always the fear that the info will be
> incorrect, but time has shown that wikis tend to be very accurate and
> get corrected quickly when not.

A page's likelihood of correctness is roughly inversely proportional to 
its popularity. Try a specialized topic outside of computers, and there 
may well be errors that only an expert will catch -- others will just be 
deceived.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-11  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-11 23:45 [gentoo-dev] An official Gentoo wiki Mark Loeser
2008-11-11 23:52 ` Joe Peterson
2008-12-11  5:48   ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2008-11-11 23:59 ` Josh Saddler
2008-11-12  0:05 ` Ferris McCormick
2008-11-12  0:15 ` Iain Buchanan
2008-11-12  0:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-11-12  2:25   ` Iain Buchanan
2008-11-13 17:21   ` Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-14  0:44     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-11-12  2:39 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jeremy Olexa
2008-11-12  1:54   ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-11-12 15:17   ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2008-11-12  9:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Hammer
2008-11-12 10:23   ` Eray Aslan
2008-11-12 12:00   ` Petteri Räty
2008-11-12 12:05     ` Gokdeniz Karadag
2008-11-12 12:49       ` Michael Hammer
2008-11-12 15:49         ` Jan Kundrát
2008-11-12 21:19           ` kashani
2008-11-12 21:29             ` Jan Kundrát
2008-11-13 18:24               ` Petteri Räty
2008-11-12 15:49         ` Ben Sanchez
2008-11-12 21:01       ` Josh Saddler
2008-11-12 21:04         ` Joe Peterson
2008-12-11  5:45   ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-12 23:43 ` Roy Bamford

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