Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
I've been contributing to the discussion of this item, a commentary on Will Thalheimer's Are Wiki's Inherently Flawed? (a good blog, and added to my aggregator). Thalheimer's proposition, essentially, is that knowledge producing systems need to be managed. "The more our communication channels have validators who correct inaccuracies, the more we tend to move toward the truth." Levine asks, "what data, evidence is this assertion based upon?" He adds (oddly) that the wiki worked as designed; it was the people who were flawed. I'm not happy with either point of view. It's easy (but wrong) to generalize based on one or two cases, particularly when the evidence is otherwise overwhelming for the other point of view, specifically, that the aggregate opinion is more reliable than that of the individual expert.

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