"Although we've always had this goal of Britannica quality or better, we're not there yet,'' he said. ''We can no longer feel satisfied and happy when we see these (article) numbers going up. ... We should continue to turn our attention away from growth and towards quality.'' (...)La idea de la construcción colaborativa y abierta de una enciclopedia (y cualquier otra wiki) presenta esta dificultad: la pericia real de los participantes, que es menos contrastada cuanto más extensa es la red de colaboradores. Si bien cada concepto puede enmendarse y ampliarse, siempre el límite será el conocimiento medio de sus participantes en cada punto enfocado.
Wales also is encouraging the community to allow fewer unsourced claims in biographies of living people. Perhaps this issue more than any other has made Wikipedia controversial, especially after it was revealed last year that for four months the entry on journalist John Seigenthaler erroneously named him as a suspect in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.
Además, la continuidad de la colaboración no está garantizada, ni existirá unidad de estilo ni conceptual. La discusión en la elaboración tiende a reducir el problema, pero en un emprendimiento de este alcance probablemente la calidad sólo vendrá a lo largo de un prolongado período de construcción.
(En Technology Review, la publicación del MIT, reproduciendo un artículo de Associated Press)
Brad King, en su blog en Technology Review, agrega su punto de vista:
Of course, the move toward improving accuracy doesn't necessarily undercut the idea it's better to tap the wisdom of the masses than simply to rely on a single source. It does, though, begin to give us a guide for how companies might begin to look to harness the power of collective information.
And the best lesson that companies may learn will come from one of the biggest challenges facing Wales and his advisory board: how to prevent egregious errors of fact, without imposing their will on the community, and potentially creating not only headaches, but also an implosion of contributors.
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