An interesting solution to problem of trust has been put forward by a group of Wikipedia users: verified information that cannot be edited.

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What a novel and brilliant idea. Why have other encyclopaedia compilers not thought of it?

Yeah, and to guarantee the permanence of the records they could take them off the TV altogether and produce multiple facsimiles of the information by means of some kind of indelible character imprinting substance on some kind of hard but still pliable medium of storage that could be mass distributed to the libraries and living rooms of the general public, where they could be edited or effaced only by little kids with crayons who had not been larned yet to know any better …


Jonny

I can't put my finger on it, but I am sure that I have heard of this idea before.