Wiki-post

I was very hesitant participate in this week's exercise, mostly because I felt a lot of pressure to"get it right". Knowing that more people would likely come in contact with a wikipedia site than my blog here, I felt I had to be extra careful, not only about grammar, clarity of sentence structure, etc. but also about the accuracy of the information that I decided to publish. It makes me wonder whether or not other authors put as much thought behind the words they choose to publish on sites. It reminds me of Schiff's idea that the key thing on sites like wikipedia is to provide accurate information, whether it's a 15 year old or a college professor, even if this gives no privilege to the people who really know what they're talking about. And I started to think, well, maybe if there is something that I said that isn't 100% accurate, or can otherwise be put more eloquently, then surely someone will eventually come around and edit my post, right? I mean, looking at the history of the changes made to the site, there are hundreds of edits that have been made in the past year or so. It would seem logical then that with increased collaboration, there would also be increased accuracy, but what if that's not necessarily true?