Professor reviews prediction of Wikipedia's demise
Wikipedia has only four years left, give or take.
That's the prediction by Eric Goldman, assistant professor and academic director for the High Technology Law Institute at Santa Clara University. Goldman originally made the prediction at the end of 2005, shortly after journalist John Seigenthaler reported that false information in his own Wikipedia biography linking him to the Kennedy assassinations remained on the site for more than four months. Now, more than a year later, Goldman reaffirms his view that Wikipedia editors--the thousands of volunteers who guard the site's content--will eventually wear out from the constant onslaught of unscrupulous marketers and vandals.
