Open Source Understanding

Well that was somewhat disappointing...

I recently decided to make a series of wikiHow pages on Apologetics. WikiHow is an open source how to site operating under a Creative Commons License. This means that anyone with a free account and the urge to edit or create articles is welcome to do so. Now, I knew prior to writing that these pages were open to editing by every passer by with a free account, but in coming face to face with the prospect of having someone with a confused understanding of the topic make revisions to my article I stopped the process.

While most wikiHow articles are important to the original writers I doubt very much that articles like "How to turn your blender into a weed-whacker" or "How to make a ninja hat out of a tee-shirt" are of the same importance in the grand scheme as say "How to defend against: The problem of Evil" or "How to defend Jesus's Divinity". They do not deal with absolute truths nor do they need to adhere to a strict bible based view of life. I don't know that I can stomach someone editing and possibly misleading others from what I intended.

Anyhow, I am still quite interested in the process and will probably test run one or two just to see what mess is made of it, if any. Who knows, if it goes well maybe I'll still get to post up all 10 articles...