Re: [Harp-L] wiki harp

[Fernando Bresslau <bresslau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Ross wrote:
> BostonMoeJo posted the cryptic message of just this link:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonica
>
> Ah, the wiki harmonica page.  Like all wikis it is a mixed bag at 
> best.  There is some information there which would be of use to those 
> first coming to the subject, a ton of useless stuff, some misleading 
> stuff and some just plain wrong stuff.  For those who actually, you 
> know, want to research it's best to use a wiki as a source of links 
> and a brief input to get ideas to more thoroughly research.
Hi Jonathan,

I agree with you on what you say about wikis and information on the 
internet in general. One has to have the ability to filter what is good 
from the ton of false or partly true information. On average, though, 
the wiki is quite correct about things. So it is a positive thing.
And actually, there are editors for wikis. That is, anybody can be an 
editor (2 bladed knife). And I believe that the work of editing the 
information available to the best of your knowledge is as important as 
the work to add new information, and that, as the page gets more 
popular, more aknowledged potential editors might want to change what 
they know is wrong or misleading, thus refining the quality of the 
information display. I haven't checked the page, but you could have 
changed yourself the quotes that you have selected, contributing to the 
wiki.

Cheers,
Fernando