[WikiEN-l] Times article (London)

[Christiano Moreschi]

>From: Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Times article (London)
>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:23:55 -0400
>
> > "The notion that a false claim to knowledge is wrong is not part of
> > Wikipedia's culture."
>
>This is preposterous.
>
> > "It combines the free-market dogmatism of the libertarian Right with
> > the anti-intellectualism of the populist Left. "
>
>Nonsense.
>
>It is hard to know how to coherently respond to ignorant ranting which
>appears to make no attempt to even connect at any point with the facts
>of reality.
>
>--Jimbo

Except it's not all ignorant ranting. He may have edited himself, and the 
stuff about "It is quite as conceivable that an early version of an entry in 
Wikipedia will be written by someone who knows the subject, and later 
editors will dissipate whatever value is there" rings very, very true - 
witness that massive wrangling and constant editing/reverting and addition 
of outright junk when [[Islam]] got on the Main Page, as does "and like an 
interminable political meeting the end result will be dominated by the 
loudest and most persistent voices."

God, yes. Anyone who's ever tried to deal with obnoxious nationalist cranks 
can testify to the fact that they never bloody well shut up until you block 
them, and quite frequently the trolls win simply by making the most noise.

Moreschi

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