Siete mitos sobre la Wikipedia
La Wikipedia es, por supuesto, una de las grandes creaciones intelectuales de principios del siglo XXI. Y como toda creación, está rodeada de ciertos mitos. En Seven Wikipedia Fallacies se comentan algunos, empezando por «La Wikipedia modifica las entradas» y acabando con «La Wikipedia es perfecta»:
This phenomenon is an instance of a more general point Wikipedia is as much a process as it is a product. The process is designed to produce an encyclopedia of constantly improving quality. The encyclopedia is a constantly moving target. Thus, while it is reasonable to say that at present Wikipedia is defective for X purpose and in its coverage of Y, one should be cautious with attempts to extrapolate these failings too far into the future. (After all, if it’s extrapolation we’re engaged in, any fair assessment of how quickly Wikipedia has become as useful as it is would suggest that within a decade it will easily be the most comprehensive and useful reference work of all time.)
