Noo, I understand Wikipedia quite well - it simply doesn't work. The fundamental model
is fundamentally flawed. Is this news? It shouldn't be - the statistics speak for
themselves. 2 million articles, all except 5000 of which probably contain at least a
couple lies.
CM
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:08:09 +0000
From: dgerard(a)gmail.com
To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [EWW] Edit Wikipedia Week
On 20/11/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/11/2007, Christiano Moreschi
<moreschiwikiman(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Look, the plain fact is that we don't
want more people adding their own
> junk to the English Wikipedia. (...) So what's the solution?
> The solution we propose is to get more of the faex populi editing
> Wikipedia. Oh, please - this is so bad it's almost funny. (...)
> At a time when Wikipedia's reputation in academia is in the shitter
> - and to most noble people of quality, this is what really hurts - we
> invite more of the village idiots into the online city? The horror, the
> horror!
I hate to break this to you, but Wikipedia is a
project which
involves, on a pretty basic level, encouraging all-comers to edit.
This is the fundamental model. This is *what we do*.
Er, yes. Christiano, you have greatly misunderstood Wikipedia.
If being in the trenches is getting you down that much, get the hell
out of there and don't take it out on the newbies.
- d.
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