Wikipedia.......90% Inaccurate

If you use Wikipedia to diagnose yourself, medical experts state that 90% of the entries in there are inaccurate.........I wonder how accurate are the rest of it is. I've heard that almost anyone can go in there and enter info..........
 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2639910/Do-NOT-try-diagnose-Wikipedia-90-medical-entries-inaccurate-say-expertsDo.html
 
What's Mooch going to do now about that...........ewe know..............problem.......

I read that on Wikipedia, so I'm pretty sure it's right.
 
Also, it appears that I have Industrial Disease.

wikipedia is absolutely the worst encyclopedia ever.  The problem is the site is easy, fast, and convenient.  For real information you need Britannica..  You also have to pay $
 
Reality of life.

Linear Phase
wikipedia is absolutely the worst encyclopedia ever.  The problem is the site is easy, fast, and convenient.  For real information you need Britannica..  You also have to pay $
 
Reality of life.

It's almost like if you want the true facts, you have to pay for it.
If you want lies, it's freely available, but "pay for it" in a different way.......soon, they'll start charging for this as well.

Mesh
I wonder how accurate are the rest of it is. I've heard that almost anyone can go in there and enter info..........

Personally, I would rate Wiki's accuracy as a BIG step above the interwebs at large, but...

http://library.blogs.delaware.gov/2013/05/05/is-wikipedia-a-reliable-source

I also find that other than minor nitpicking, the bashing of wiki as inaccurate is rarely accompanied by examples. I bet if we grabbed ten random topics and looked them up on Wikipedia they would be very general but for the most part right. Even minor errors are at a similar rate to Encyclopedia Britannica. Here is one of many studies confirming such:http://www.jimgiles.net/p...rnetEncyclopaedias.pdf

auto_da_fe
Small groups of appointed experts deciding what is and what isn't the truth ?
Large groups of self-appointed experts competing to establish what is and what isn't the truth ?
 
Do you trust the priest ?
Or the marketplace ?
 
As usual, somewhere in the middle yields a reasonable version of the truth.
 

 
The idea that truth must lie somewhere in the middle is a blatant fallacy.
 
The truth lies where it lies. If one is incapable of determining where it lies based on the available credible evidence, or there is a lack of credible evidence, that simply means that one is incapable of knowing the truth to any meaningful degree.

Wait a minute...  Medical experts are saying that an alternative source of medical information is inaccurate?  Shocking! 

craigb
Wait a minute...  Medical experts are saying that an alternative source of medical information is inaccurate?  Shocking! 

Based on my own experience, and that of those around me, medical experts might as well be using Wiki... In my experience, 9 times out 10, they never could tell what was wrong.
 
I remember the last time I went and had to go back 5 days in a row for post-treatment. Of the 7 doctors I saw, not one had the same reaction and diagnosis. That's not counting the nurse who first saw me. Sometimes, they'd be reassuring, other times they'd react strangely and call in colleagues. One spooked me out.
 
That 6th one had me scared by saying that he couldn't do anything for me and sent me off to a different hospital to meet another doctor, w/o telling more. That 7th doctor, after a bunch of tests, told me that everything was alright if not for the fact that the first doctor I'd seen had done a poor job w/ the incision...
 
All that for a mere cyst - that is still there because they only drained it and never removed the actual cyst.
I say cross your fingers that you'll never be seriously sick and have to rely on them.
 
Things are a bit better this side of the border though...

paulo

Rain
I remember at one point trying to correct/change a few details on the wiki about my wife, at her request, only to have most of the changes "fixed" by someone else a few hours later.
 
I guess they knew better...

That, or maybe there's some stuff she hasn't told you yet.......... ;)

I've helped translate her entire portfolio for the green card last winter - and actually, there was a lot I never knew, indeed. :P

There is a great article in Wiki on truth ... not sure if it is all true though.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
 
 

You mean I can't un-install NagBap?  Bummer.  

Mesh
If you use Wikipedia to diagnose yourself, medical experts state that 90% of the entries in there are inaccurate.........I wonder how accurate are the rest of it is. I've heard that almost anyone can go in there and enter info..........
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Wiki is also inaccurate in a lot of other things, because the people that are putting up information are not verified and their information checked. There are some very gross errors and information, and while it is NOW, way better than any Encyclopedia out there, because at the very least you have some information instead of almost none, in the end, it's still not enough.
 
There is also a measure of stupidity involved. My own father's entry finally got done a couple of years ago, and of course it was done by some arsenic Portuguese idiot, that put it up in Portuguese with no translation on it, and I guess you know that everyone else around the world will never be able to read anything in there and get any information out of it. I stopped checking for the English version a year ago, but that world of academic jerks are not intelligent enough to know how to get information to anyone else but themselves, as some sort of glorified toilet paper and words!
 
We haven't even started on rock music yet! Last I checked, Alan Stivell was Norwegian!