Re: Wikibook on octave

[Bill Denney]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> To have the result be something useful, I think it
> would be essential to have some knowledgeable people serving as
> editors.
>   
That is the difference between Nupedia (I think that was the name) and 
Wikipedia.  Nupedia tried to recruit experts to write what they knew 
about and only have "knowledgeable" editors and writers while Wikipedia 
uses the "it'll get fixed eventually" method.  The second will get much 
more participation and therefore is more useful because if anyone can 
edit it easily then you'll get more information.  Sure some of it may 
not be the most useful and possibly wrong, but then new users can try 
it, ask a question (possibly to the help list) and fix it.

As you can probably see, I'm much more for editing by anyone and having 
more (possibly erroneous material) than a small amount of definitely 
correct, but possibly out of date, material.

Bill