Re: dbdebunk 'Quote of Week' comment

"Marshall Spight" <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1125117675.786528.79350_at_f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

> > So, is this wikipedia entry correct?
>
> I didn't read the whole thing, but what I did read was crap.
> I wasn't sure what specific part of the article you're referring
> to, so I can't directly address whether that specific part was
> crap. But I bet it was crap.
>
> Wikipedia is highly variable. It may be that in a few years
> this entry will be a lot better. You could try to improve it
> yourself, of course, in the spirit of wiki. I confine myself
> to correcting obvious factual errors, spelling errors, and
> grammatical errors. I help in my own small way. :-)

I looked into this some more, and I find the following surprising divergence between two entries in wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBMS

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database

The second one makes a great deal more sense to me. Who coordinates wikipedia? The former chief architect at the tower of Babel? Received on Sun Aug 28 2005 - 21:46:04 CEST