The second round in the Wikipedia-Register battle of 2004 has been published, and Andrew Orlowski promises a third. You have to chuckle at his description of the Wikipedia community as "the Khmer Rouge in diapers."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/
He has the advantage of being able to cherry pick the most acerbic, typo ridden email rants in order to make his case. Then again, the Register folks have no high ground here - they didn't spell their own URL correctly ("daipers" [sic]).
Andrew Lih wrote:
The second round in the Wikipedia-Register battle of 2004 has been published, and Andrew Orlowski promises a third. You have to chuckle at his description of the Wikipedia community as "the Khmer Rouge in diapers."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/
He has the advantage of being able to cherry pick the most acerbic, typo ridden email rants in order to make his case. Then again, the Register folks have no high ground here - they didn't spell their own URL correctly ("daipers" [sic]).
As long as they can tell us to go read a "*real* encyclopedia", how about we go off and read a *real* newspaper? :)
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:47:04 +0800, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/
Register folks have no high ground here - they didn't spell their own URL correctly ("daipers" [sic]).
They're the villians who stole my dipthong!
Future to Make Past Obsolete:
http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001488.html#1488
On Sep 8, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Sj wrote:
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 14:47:04 +0800, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/07/khmer_rouge_in_daipers/
Register folks have no high ground here - they didn't spell their own URL correctly ("daipers" [sic]).
Andrew Lih wrote:
The second round in the Wikipedia-Register battle of 2004 has been published, and Andrew Orlowski promises a third. You have to chuckle at his description of the Wikipedia community as "the Khmer Rouge in diapers."
That's why they say not to get in fights with people who buy ink by the gallon, err, servers by the truckload. :-) You can bet he won't mention it the first time he actually gets the info he's looking for from WP, but maybe a year or two from now he might casually drop that "WP is starting to become useful", as if we were all breathlessly waiting for his stamp of approval.
Stan
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