On 01/06/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
As far as I can tell, the site started out in good faith (if a little crankily) and was an accurate representation of what its authors were wanting. Then they, er, got famous. And got hit hard, by a thousand enthusiastic vandals and parodists and real cranks... and the entire thing went completely incomprehensible.
Yeah. I think there's a fair bit of discontent toward Wikipedia, because it's (a) hugely popular (b) has ridiculous Google page rank (because people keep linking to it) (c) there are no effective competitors. So Andrew Schlafly thought he could do a wiki encyclopedia more suited to his views, and publicised it as "a conservative version of Wikipedia" ... and it got flattened by the attention of gawkers who could hardly believe these people's views were for real. The site works now, but it was down under the load for a fair while.
- d.