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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

BBC NEWS | Technology | Not as wiki as it used to be

BBC NEWS | Technology | Not as wiki as it used to be: "For some time the people behind Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia assembled from reader contributions and edited and maintained by those who care to get involved, have been coping with the fallout from a widely-publicised failure of their quality control mechanism.

Last November US politician John Seigenthaler took Wikipedia to task in the columns of USA Today over a false and defamatory biography of him that had been posted on the site."

When you distribute power, people tend to misuse it. But then centralization of power is not the solution. Where is the solution then ? Is there NO distribution of power in a social structure that is optimal and lasting ?

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