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Everything2 Hits One Million Nodes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the congratulations-guys dept.

Stavr0 noted that Everything 2 has now hit its 1 Millionth Node: [list collector] by [stepnwolf]. Long long long time readers of Slashdot remember Everything as The Mystery Project thought up and developed years ago by Nate & I, which has since taken on a life of its own. Congrats to Nate, Bones, Darrick, Tim, Ron, and the thousands of people who have contributed a million nodes, both priceless and worthless to this bizarre experiment in distributed collection and maintanence of information. Nostalgia rises up in me whenever I read the original nodes that Nate and I wrote when Everything was just a wierd drunken idea. If only we figured out a way for it to break even ;)

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  1. Wikipedia hits 2000 articles by jwales · · Score: 5
    If you'd like to get in on the ground floor of something similar, but a lot more serious, Wikipedia (the free GNU FDL encyclopedia based on wiki software) is always looking for good contributors.

    Since opening in January, we already have over 2000 articles, many of very good quality.

    Everything2 is awesome. But many of the entries are more humor than anything else. An encyclopedia is a different beast.

    http://www.wikipedia.com/

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    Wikia
  2. It thinks, therefore... by zpengo · · Score: 5
    The cool thing about Everything is that it eventually acquired its own culture (much as Slashdot has its own culture), and it became self-referential. It acquired self-awareness, and lost its dependency upon the outside world. Slashdot depends upon external ideas and information, but Everything is perfectly content writing about the things that it discovers about itself. It's a simple thought experiment that took off and became, if not a small movement, then at least something like one.

    It exists on a purely conceptual level. It soon outgrew a limitation on existing ideas and began to create new ideas, such as "backwards compatibility of the toaster." Instead of describing what people thought, it made them think anew.

    I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's cool. :)

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  3. Everything2:Community yes, source of knowledge, no by sociology+major · · Score: 5
    The simple fact about everything2 is that while it is an interesting place, and a fascinating community, the ecology of any online community ultimately destroys it as a source of reliable information.

    Everything2 has its own fair share of trolls and freaks, intent on spreading disinformation and chaos. This means that anything said there must be taken with a pinch of salt.

    Furthermore, it has its own 'Karma Whore' equivalents, people who are trying to gain 'experience' and status as a result. It is full of ultimately banal information.

    Secondly, the females there are pretty awful - the average female uses the internet to affirm real life relationships, not to make new relationships. Females who post to online communities are usually rather strange creatures, desperate for some sort of attention.

    This is why the e2 females cluster around the sex topics.

    Having said all that, e2 definately is interesting. It is just not reputable or useful.

    It has fun, but no utility.