[Publius6961]

To critics of Wikipedia--which, in a spin on the open-source model, lets anyone create and edit entries--the news was further proof that the service has no accountability and no place in the world of serious information gathering.

Pretty much my position since I understood the "business model".

Anyone setting up such a service based on both its usefulness and the assumption that the users/editors will be 100% honest and not exploit and abuse the system is a fool...

[youngtechster]

Pretty much my position since I understood the "business model".

Anyone setting up such a service based on both its usefulness and the assumption that the users/editors will be 100% honest and not exploit and abuse the system is a fool...

However, we can probably trust this encyclopedia more than any other out there. I would rather have a hard copy of this encyclopedia than any other out there.

They have a CD form of the entire contents available (or were talking about making one). This would surely kick the ass out of Encarta, and many of the other resource material available on CD-ROM

Wikipedia, for the articles I've needed it for, has been absolutely un-biased and extremely informative.