On 6/29/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
On 29/06/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 6/29/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
Why were people searching for Brian Peppers? How had they heard about
him?
when they search were do they hit first?
I have no idea why people were searching for Brian Peppers, other than that they apparently wanted to find out more information about him, and I highly doubt a decent study has been done to determine more exactly why people were searching for him and how they had heard about him. Anecdotally, I heard about him through the deletion discussion. I believe Snopes is currently the top hit for a search. It probably used to be Wikipedia.
Not sure why any of this matters, though.
Well it all goes back to what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia isn't snopes. Snopes has done a great job since newsgroups/bbs. Does wikipedia want to be like snopes?
No, of course not. Wikipedia is much broader in scope than Snopes, it's written collaboratively, and it's open source.