From: Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Times article (London) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:23:55 -0400
"The notion that a false claim to knowledge is wrong is not part of Wikipedia's culture."
This is preposterous.
"It combines the free-market dogmatism of the libertarian Right with the anti-intellectualism of the populist Left. "
Nonsense.
It is hard to know how to coherently respond to ignorant ranting which appears to make no attempt to even connect at any point with the facts of reality.
--Jimbo
Except it's not all ignorant ranting. He may have edited himself, and the stuff about "It is quite as conceivable that an early version of an entry in Wikipedia will be written by someone who knows the subject, and later editors will dissipate whatever value is there" rings very, very true - witness that massive wrangling and constant editing/reverting and addition of outright junk when [[Islam]] got on the Main Page, as does "and like an interminable political meeting the end result will be dominated by the loudest and most persistent voices."
God, yes. Anyone who's ever tried to deal with obnoxious nationalist cranks can testify to the fact that they never bloody well shut up until you block them, and quite frequently the trolls win simply by making the most noise.
Moreschi
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