I was describing to someone how Wikipedia works:
"anyone can edit" etc.
He answered with this argument:
"Wikipedia is the triumph of the average person!
of the man in the street!)"
(average meaning: not good, not bad, just OK)
I asked "why?"
His explanation:
"Great brilliant works are built by individuals.
Groups of people can only create average works.
If someone writes something good in the wiki,
other average persons will intervene with his/her
work and turn it into an average work. If someone
writes something bad in the wiki, the others will
again turn it into something of average value.
with your system (meaning: Wikipedia's system)
you can be sure that you will never create
something too bad but also never something too
good. You can create only average articles."
The idea behind his argument was that Wikipedia
will be a good resource as long as it attracts
good cotnributors. but it will soon become an
average site/encyclopaedia because it allows
anyone to join the project and edit, and most
people are just average persons and not brilliant
writers.
Do you think it's true? and how can we answer
this argument?
--Optim
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On Sunday 28 July 2002 03:00 am, The Cunctator wrote:
> What are the articles this person has been changing?
For 66.108.155.126:
20:08 Jul 27, 2002 Computer
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 Exploit
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 AOL
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Leet
20:03 Jul 27, 2002 Root
20:02 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:59 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:58 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Principle of least astonishment
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:52 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
19:51 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
For 208.24.115.6:
20:20 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
For 141.157.232.26:
20:19 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
Most of these were complete replacements with discoherent statements.
Such as "TAP IS THE ABSOLUTE DEFINITION OF THE NOUN HACKER" for Hacker.
For the specifics follow http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
and look at the contribs.
--mav
HI
I created a book using the tools on wikipedia, and downloaded it in odf
format, becuase i would like to add more pages to the book.
When opening it in LibreOffice, i get a message "Read-Error. Error reading
file."
I asked on the LibreOffice site what the problem could be and the and it
turns out that the downloaded odf format does not conform to the ODF1.1
format.
Here is the link to the Libreoffice forum question
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/25080/reading-error-libreoffice-vers…
and here is a link to the document i downloaded from wikipedia
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qeuf9m1c671tuv3/Namib%20Tour.odt and here is the
site i tested the document against the format
http://odf-validator.rhcloud.com/
Below is the result of the test of the downloaded document against the
format
Regards
Theuns Heydenrych
Result for Namib Tour.odt
The document is NOT conformant ODF1.1!
Details:
Namib Tour.odt: Info: ODF version of root document: 1.1
internal:/schema/odf1.1/OpenDocument-manifest-schema-v1.1.rng: Info: parsed.
Namib Tour.odt/META-INF/manifest.xml: Info: no errors, no warnings
Namib Tour.odt/mimetype: Info: no errors, no warnings
Namib Tour.odt: Info: Media Type: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
internal:/schema/odf1.1/OpenDocument-schema-v1.1.rng: Info: parsed.
Namib Tour.odt/meta.xml: Info: Generator: ODFPY/0.9.3
Namib Tour.odt/meta.xml: Info: no errors, no warnings
Namib Tour.odt/styles.xml[2,5493]: Error: tag name
"style:paragraph-properties" is not allowed. Possible tag names are: <map>
Namib Tour.odt/styles.xml[2,5806]: Error: tag name
"style:paragraph-properties" is not allowed. Possible tag names are: <map>
Namib Tour.odt/styles.xml[2,6119]: Error: tag name
"style:paragraph-properties" is not allowed. Possible tag names are: <map>
Namib Tour.odt/styles.xml[2,6432]: Error: tag name
"style:paragraph-properties" is not allowed. Possible tag names are: <map>
Namib Tour.odt/styles.xml: Info: 4 errors, no warnings
Namib Tour.odt/content.xml: Info: no errors, no warnings
Namib Tour.odt: Info: 4 errors, no warnings
Hoi,
Wikidata supports many more items than any Wikipedia has articles and as
our objective is to "share in the sum of all knowledge", it is obvious that
Wikidata has added value.
Thanks to the latest hack by Magnus, it is now possible to include Wikidata
in your search result. I blogged about this [1].
When you are interested in this functionality as much as I am, add
*importScriptURI("//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wdsearch.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Wdsearch.js&action=raw&…>");
*
to your User::YOUR_USER/common.js.
On the English Wikipedia add
*importScript('MediaWiki:Wdsearch.js');*
You can further improve the results in your language by adding labels in
your language on the items that matter to you in Wikidata.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2013/11/divcon-valerie-sutton-found-on-o…