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The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia

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By Timothy Messer-Kruse • For the past 10 years I've immersed myself in the details of one of the most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and trial of 1886. Along the way I've written two books and a couple of articles about the …
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Just a minor followup:

Here are the schmucks on Metafilter discussing the Messer-Kruse affair.

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Wikipedia editors don't have any means to distinguish the minority expert that's correcting a majority error from the minority expert that's actually a moonbat crank. The only reasonable WP policy is to defer to the majority expert consensus, and sometimes that's going to be wrong, but they don't have any other defense mechanism against cranks trying to use Wikipedia to promote fringe theories.

There are a lot of times when Wikipedia editors are dogmatic bureaucratic idiots, but this isn't one of them.
posted by 0xFCAF at 5:11 PM on March 3 [21 favorites]
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Newsfeed   The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia   Sun 12th February 2012, 5:47am
iii   I have quoted some of this fantastic article in co...   Mon 13th February 2012, 2:01am
dogbiscuit   This is what happens when crowdsourcing is used a...   Mon 13th February 2012, 1:55pm
thekohser   From the excerpted text, it certainly does sound l...   Mon 13th February 2012, 5:07am
HRIP7   His account is MesserKruse. From his talk page: ...   Mon 13th February 2012, 1:38pm
Malik Shabazz   Regretfully, I haven't finished reading Timoth...   Mon 13th February 2012, 6:58pm
thekohser   Short of blowing up the encyclopedia (and I know ...   Mon 13th February 2012, 8:38pm
Malik Shabazz   [quote name='Malik Shabazz' post='297745' date='M...   Mon 13th February 2012, 8:52pm
nableezy   By the way, the entire article has been posted he...   Mon 13th February 2012, 9:44pm
thekohser   [quote name='Malik Shabazz' post='297750' date='M...   Mon 13th February 2012, 9:54pm
iii   [quote name='nableezy' post='297756' date='Mon 13...   Mon 13th February 2012, 9:59pm
lilburne   :[ When has the "spirit of fair use" ...   Mon 13th February 2012, 10:45pm
mbz1   It is actually quite a funny, or should I say ...   Wed 15th February 2012, 2:12am
iii   Short of blowing up the encyclopedia (and I know s...   Mon 13th February 2012, 9:50pm
iii   And then we get idiotic commentary like this. App...   Wed 15th February 2012, 3:57am
mbz1   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wi...   Wed 15th February 2012, 4:23am
iii   Source-scolding of a very ignorant sort seems to b...   Wed 15th February 2012, 12:13pm
mbz1   And for the record Here's a post at Gwen Gale...   Thu 16th February 2012, 12:44am
iii   I was waiting for some drone to make this argument...   Thu 16th February 2012, 3:37am
dogbiscuit   I was waiting for some drone to make this argumen...   Thu 16th February 2012, 9:43am
HRIP7   [quote name='iii' post='297977' date='Thu 16th Fe...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 2:01pm
iii   [quote name='iii' post='297977' date='Thu 16th F...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 3:34pm
mbz1   Keep the pressure on and maybe we can get more ...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 7:35pm
thekohser   Please forgive my ignorance, but could you please...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 7:41pm
SB_Johnny   Keep the pressure on and maybe we can get more p...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 7:45pm
iii   Keep the pressure on and maybe we can get more...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 2:33am
HRIP7   NPR audio and transcript here.   Thu 23rd February 2012, 2:53am
mbz1   And yet another wikipidiot wrote http://en.wikiped...   Thu 16th February 2012, 2:30pm
dogbiscuit   Note the battleground mentality. Surely the idea ...   Thu 16th February 2012, 3:11pm
Fusion   they have got through the [b]rights of passage in...   Fri 17th February 2012, 1:20pm
thekohser   they have got through the [b]rights of passage i...   Fri 17th February 2012, 4:35pm
Fusion   [quote name='Fusion' post='298097' date='Fri 17th...   Fri 17th February 2012, 10:00pm
Mister Die   The fact that Wikipedia to begin with allows peopl...   Fri 17th February 2012, 12:06pm
Emperor   The fact that Wikipedia to begin with allows peop...   Fri 17th February 2012, 12:23pm
SB_Johnny   The fact that Wikipedia to begin with allows peo...   Sun 19th February 2012, 12:13am
Emperor   [quote name='Emperor' post='298089' date='Fri 17t...   Sun 19th February 2012, 3:19am
Jon Awbrey   RE: The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia   Sat 18th February 2012, 5:46am
Jon Awbrey   RE: The ‘Undue Weight’ of Truth on Wikipedia   Sun 19th February 2012, 7:51pm
SB_Johnny   Jimbo apparently thinks it's to his advantage ...   Sun 19th February 2012, 10:10pm
lilburne   "The Great Unwashed" but it might also r...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 7:42pm
Michaeldsuarez   One argument that has so far been neglected is th...   Fri 24th February 2012, 4:15am
lilburne   Just a minor followup: [url=http://www.metafilte...   Sun 4th March 2012, 10:16am

 

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