On 24 Jan 2007 at 11:24, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
- Wikipedia is a give / take thing. you give your effort and in
return you are rewarded with something which will help you in the search engine rankings with Google and possibly the other major engines.
http://www.sepguy.com/2007/01/23/5-reasons-wikipedia-is-doomed.html
That page is a real "How many errors can you find in this page?" brainteaser. The author's attribution of WikiSeek as having been launched by Jimbo Wales (it's actually by a company named Searchme, Inc., unconnected with the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikia, or any other Jimbo Wales venture) is the most glaring error I noticed.
The site also refers to "wiki Nazis", thus triggering Godwin's Law. Then the author links to a personal anecdote of "Wikipedia hell" which turns out to simply be the fact that he once added a lengthy section on "Search Engine Prominence" to an article and had it removed and criticized by another editor on the grounds of the terminology being "not really standard". Interesting definition of "hell" as being a place where not everybody always agrees with you all the time. (It kind of reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where hell turned out to be a place of eternal boredom where everything you try to do works perfectly with no conflict of any sort.)