BWF89
October 17th, 2006, 10:43 PM
Now we all know that Wikipedia is most comprehensive source of information on the planet. But the fact that anyone can edit it is why it's not a credible source for basing a school paper on. Our school has a policy where Wikipedia doesn't count as a source for school papers becuase anyone can edit it and sometimes articles are left with false information for months before anyone realizes and fixes them.
So what I've been thinking about is. Why can't we have 2 versions of Wikipedia? We could have a stable and unstable version of it. The stable version would peer reviewed by Wikipedians and stamped with a seal of approval by an expert and no further changes allowed. That way schools and other industries that can't afford to be misled can have cofidence in it. Then we could have an unstable version that would exist as the current Wikipedia does.
Since there would never be enough manpower to stamp alot of the articles with seals of approval we would have to pick out what subjects are more important that others. Like an article on a political ideology or global climate change would be placed higher on the list of articles needing a stamp to become stable. Articles about unencyclopedia material (such as Pink Floyd or the latest generation of videogame consoles) while interesting woudldn't be put on the list and would remain unstable probably forever.
So what I've been thinking about is. Why can't we have 2 versions of Wikipedia? We could have a stable and unstable version of it. The stable version would peer reviewed by Wikipedians and stamped with a seal of approval by an expert and no further changes allowed. That way schools and other industries that can't afford to be misled can have cofidence in it. Then we could have an unstable version that would exist as the current Wikipedia does.
Since there would never be enough manpower to stamp alot of the articles with seals of approval we would have to pick out what subjects are more important that others. Like an article on a political ideology or global climate change would be placed higher on the list of articles needing a stamp to become stable. Articles about unencyclopedia material (such as Pink Floyd or the latest generation of videogame consoles) while interesting woudldn't be put on the list and would remain unstable probably forever.