[WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

MuZemike muzemike at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 07:52:35 UTC 2011


Yeah, we suck. However, we must be doing *something* right, otherwise 
Wikipedia wouldn't have achieved the success it is currently enjoying. I 
think that was what Jimbo was referring to in his last interview with 
Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

-MuZemike

On 1/19/2011 2:33 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:56 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 21 December 2010 19:58, Tony Sidaway<tonysidaway at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/12/wikipedia_will_1.htm
>>
>>
>> Prof Goldman has followed up saying he was wrong, though we still of
>> course suck, though he still consults Wikipedia daily:
>>
>> http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/01/my_2005_predict.htm
>>
>>
>> - d.
>
> I disagree with "though we still of course suck".  I think he makes
> reasonably on point useful criticisms.
>
> Several of them are things we've said internally, on this list and elsewhere...
>
>




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