On 7/26/07, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
The same goes for Metapedia. It's a lobby for a particular viewpoint on subjects, not a fair and comprehensive encyclopedic endeavor.
To comment specifically on these two points, these are not legitimate complaints at all. On these points the adage applies: "The more, the merrier."
The fact that all the subject-specific projects that have sprung up on wikia.com (some of them based on formerly wikipedia-content some of them not) are not and will never be balanced in terms of what you or I or the fictional wikipedian horde would feel appropriate, is neither here nor there. It is valid content in the wiki sense of being useful enough for someone bothering to write about it. The fact that wikipedia/media has a pike up its ass these days about wanting to be respectable and all that jazz, doesn't change the original wikiway at all.
Ward Cunningham said it well, I forget the original quotation, but it went something on the lines that wikipedia would not be a wiki, nor an encyclopaedia... Maybe I have it wrong, but that is definitely how I feel about wikipedia these days. We lost the wikiway, but we are never going to swallow the encyclopaedia kool-aid.
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]