I was interested to hear this week on BBC world program "click" from this
week, that they gave out a warning on Wikipedia.com as "readers beware"

It appears to be that Microsoft found a lot of errors at the web site and
offered to fix them up free (free, how interesting) anyway Microsoft were
turned down,

I must say I had a dose of Wikipedia ignorance, it appears a few people I
know and I have had four different examples over recent years, people do not
know about gamma correction when their picture come out dark on their
electronic camera, one person I knew just increased the brightness of the
picture and then adjusted the colors until the picture look about right,
when all he had to do would be to adjust the gamma correction by 2.

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I was interested to hear this week on BBC world program "click" from this
week, that they gave out a warning on Wikipedia.com as "readers beware"

It appears to be that Microsoft found a lot of errors at the web site and
offered to fix them up free (free, how interesting) anyway Microsoft were
turned down,

Microsoft wanted to PAY people to update what THEY think is wrong
information. Wikipedia has blocked companies and users who have been
PAID to write up articles. The idea of Wikipedia is open, free,
information.

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It appears to be that Microsoft found a lot of errors at the web site and
offered to fix them up free (free, how interesting) anyway Microsoft were
turned down,

Similar to the White House hiring an oil company lobbyist to rewrite or
censor all the scientific papers on global warming.

Andrew Rossmann ha escrito:
In article , says...
I was interested to hear this week on BBC world program "click" from this
week, that they gave out a warning on Wikipedia.com as "readers beware"

It appears to be that Microsoft found a lot of errors at the web site and
offered to fix them up free (free, how interesting) anyway Microsoft were
turned down,

Microsoft wanted to PAY people to update what THEY think is wrong
information.

surprise surprise....
thing is, how would wikipedia know whether any particular individual
contributor was in the pay of microsoft? (outright MS propaganda
contributions aside!)

Wikipedia has blocked companies and users who have been
PAID to write up articles. The idea of Wikipedia is open, free,
information.

'Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not
truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.' --F.V..Zappa