Re: [EWW] Edit Wikipedia Week

Noo, I understand Wikipedia quite well - it simply doesn't work. The fundamental model is fundamentally
flawed. Is this news? It shouldn't be - the statistics speak for themselves. 2 million articles, all
except 5000 of which probably contain at least a couple lies.

CM

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:08:09 +0000
> From: dgerard@...
> To: foundation-l@...
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [EWW] Edit Wikipedia Week
> 
> On 20/11/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray@...> wrote:
> > On 20/11/2007, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman@...> wrote:
> 
> > > Look, the plain fact is that we don't want more people adding their own
> > > junk to the English Wikipedia. (...) So what's the solution?
> > > The solution we propose is to get more of the faex populi editing
> > > Wikipedia. Oh, please - this is so bad it's almost funny.  (...)
> > > At a time when Wikipedia's reputation in academia is in the shitter
> > > - and to most noble people of quality, this is what really hurts - we
> > > invite more of the village idiots into the online city? The horror, the
> > > horror!
> 
> > I hate to break this to you, but Wikipedia is a project which
> > involves, on a pretty basic level, encouraging all-comers to edit.
> > This is the fundamental model. This is *what we do*.
> 
> 
> Er, yes. Christiano, you have greatly misunderstood Wikipedia.
> 
> If being in the trenches is getting you down that much, get the hell
> out of there and don't take it out on the newbies.
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
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