[WikiEN-l] Attack Site Wars, Episode VII... The Return of the Essjay

[Anthony]

On 6/29/07, michael west <michawest at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/06/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/29/07, michael west <michawest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Why were people searching for Brian Peppers? How had they heard about
> > him?
> > > > when they search were do they hit first?
> >
> > I have no idea why people were searching for Brian Peppers, other than
> > that they apparently wanted to find out more information about him,
> > and I highly doubt a decent study has been done to determine more
> > exactly why people were searching for him and how they had heard about
> > him.  Anecdotally, I heard about him through the deletion discussion.
> > I believe Snopes is currently the top hit for a search.  It probably
> > used to be Wikipedia.
> >
> > Not sure why any of this matters, though.
> >
> Well it all goes back to what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia isn't snopes. Snopes
> has done a great job since newsgroups/bbs. Does wikipedia want to be like
> snopes?
>
No, of course not.  Wikipedia is much broader in scope than Snopes,
it's written collaboratively, and it's open source.