[WikiEN-l] What sparked your interest in Wikipedia? (was Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source)

[David Gerard]

2009/6/15 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:

> And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and
> a really long thread results.


My wife suggested in late 2003 I look something up on "Wikipedia." I
started off in a quiet and noncontroversial manner, first editing
stuff about neo-Nazis then editing stuff about Scientology. A few days
later I posted to my blog "New form of online crack discovered."

(Subject: line changed accordingly)


- d.