[WikiEN-l] wikitruth.info (Slashdot story)

[Ben Yates]

Sure, but none of their criticisms are about the developers; they're
all about the editors and admins.  Don't get me wrong -- I've read
through the site, and sometimes they seem like assholes -- but I think
that the question deserves serious thought: are attack sites like this
just a product of the huge wikipedia userbase, or are wikipedia's
problems severe enough that WikiTruth is an understandable response? 
I think the answer is the former, but every time attacks are answered
with mockery rather than thought I get nudged toward the latter.

On 4/17/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Ben Yates <bluephonic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't agree with wikitruth, but there doesn't seem to be anything
> > particularly ironic about them using a wiki: they're anti-wikipedia,
> > not anti-wiki or anti-free-software.
>
> It's not so much that they are using a wiki. It is that they are using
> software they it primarily designed to run Wikipedia and Wikipedia
> projects. Thus they accept our developers at least know what they are
> doing.
>
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> geni
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