10 Jan 2005
Wikipedia Faces Growing Pains

I hope they can solve these problems: Wikipedia is a great resource. But without some tighter controls on contributions, I doubt that we reasonable folks will be able to fend off the trolls and wingnuts forever. They can be alot more obsessed about a particular topic than we are, and consequently have a great deal more persistance. Just look at how many newsgroups have been destroyed by a single nutjob, continually posting his rants and drowning out the voices of the sane.

As the member-created free informational site continues to expand, more people treat it like a traditional encyclopedia. But academics caution that many of its entries receive little scrutiny. By Daniel Terdiman.

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