From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)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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