The neverending story

Alex Halavais proves that Wikipedia is not trustworthy and curiously interprets his experiment as a proof why Wikipedia works. In the meantime, a number of Wikipedia advocates attack a journalist because he quoted the Wikipedia disclaimer and was disappointed to find out Wikipedia itself admits it's not authoritative. Even Joi Ito for once is totally clueless about what distinguishes a knowledge-building tool like a wiki from a knowledge pool like an encyclopedia.

And all because all of them see Wikipedia from the engineer's perspective (i.e. knowledge building) and not from a user's point of view (i.e. knowledge retrieval). I posted my thoughts here in Joi's comments, and you can post your replies over there.