Re the analogy between restaurants and wikipedia by Jimmy Wales: All the restaurants in Toronto must pass health inspection (food storage, etc.) and must post their pass certificate prominently near the outside door. While health inspections are always problematic (inadequate measures, bribery, etc.), they do give some assertion that the steak will be steak and will actually be stored in a fridge with proper temperature. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________