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Who’s right?

published on
April 2nd, 2007
by Marko Mrdjenovic

Let’s say you’re looking for a piece of information and you only have two sources that offer it, which one would you belive?

  1. Wikipedia
  2. IMDB

Votes please. You can also add the correct birth date of Joan Jett.

Opinions

  1. posted on
    April 2nd, 2007
    by Marko

    IMDB.

  2. posted on
    April 2nd, 2007
    by Marko Mrdjenovic

    Just because collaborative knowledge might be wrong? If you check the history and the talk there seems to be a problem with her birth date – except if the source of the problem is Wikipedia itself.

  3. posted on
    April 2nd, 2007
    by Marko

    IMDB is collaborative as well. But it’s domain specific with crowd that has their interests sort of aligned to it.

    If anywhere, then wisdom of crowds should be displayed in such environment. Alas, it’s not always perfect.

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My name is Marko Mrdjenovič and I’m a web developer and a manager from Ljubljana, Slovenia (N 46° 03.246,W 14° 30.265).

I like solving problems. I do that by writing code, managing projects and people. I like creating good experiences. And going to conferences. I work at Zemanta. I do freelance UX/front-end/back-end work, available from March.

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