Individuals write articles and post them on Wikipedia, and these articles are then open for vetting and editing by the community of Wikipedia readers, rather than by a single editor and fact-checker.
Suddenly, the door was open: to vets; to children of Depression-era parents who could not afford college; to women, who had been excluded from many of the top schools; to nonwhites, who had been segregated or under-represented; to the children of people who came to the United States precisely so that their children could go to college.
The horrible conditions veterans often face bother Mike, who makes sure that the Sausage Castle is always open to vets.
Then someone steadies its head, maybe with a harness, and holds its jaws open so a vet can reach in and out quickly with a cotton swab.
"The day he dies and the vets open him up will be the day we find out why he is so much superior to all the other thoroughbreds".
In a free and democratic nation we have virtues, values, and beliefs that we are open to share, vet, and pursue.
In the middle of the night, with no regular vets open, we had a choice: spend hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars for expensive tests and treatments, or let him go.
Crowdsourced vetting would open up the assessment process to the body politic, having people apply for a sort of "verified news checker" status and then allowing them to rank news as they see it.
"What I would like," said Lon Snowden, the father, "is for this to be vetted in open court, for the American people to have all the facts".
There could be some sort of open-source certification or vetting process to make sure new apps don't crash the phones, or at least to separate unproven beta apps from those that have been tested.
