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Webby Award 2004 Winners Announced
ivar writes "Over at the official site, the 2004 Webby Award Winners have been announced. There were a few surprises given the last publicly viewable rankings - I guess they keep the last few days in secrecy for a reason." The press release announcing the winners has more detail, noting: "Reflecting the egalitarian spirit of the internet, winners ranged from Wikipedia.org (Best Community), a free, community-built encyclopedia, to the official site for the Oscar-winning documentary The Fog of War (Best Film), to web powerhouses like Google (Best Practices and Best Services)."
Probably the best community page on Wikipedia to get to know people in the community is Wikipedia:Wikipdians. It's a listing of all the differnet indices of Wikipedians. (I personally started Wikipedians by age and the Facebook)
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Afraid the Broadband category winner has a URL ending /index_flash.html
The BBC also have an article about this, predictably considering they also won three awards. They won best news, sports and educational coverage, which really does show how great a resource they are.
Hmm, weird. Mathematics, physics, particle physics, basic and advanced chemistry... I've followed those "threads" quite extensively and I've yet to find a blatant error/nonsense. Of course there are lots of stubs (or just placeholders), but that is just waiting to be rectified. You're right, though, when you say that there's too little existing information in many cases.
As for the politics, I cannot comment as I've only contributed occasionally and anonymously. I certainly hope it's not THAT bad as other people have suggested...
"Intellectual Property" should be an affront to anyone capable of independent thought.
Might I point out that Lord Kenneth is a known miscreant who has pulled a number of stunts like this. Keep that in mind when evaluating the worth of his criticisms.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Two steps. Turing links to World War Two, which links to China.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor
Many posters claim that LordK3nn3th is a kook. They claim that he believes that he and only he is right, and that any "controversy" is really people who are wrong disagreeing with him.
There is, of course, the trollish revision he made to a certain wiki page before being driven away, but reasonable minds might differ about his alleged objections.
Some think that a reasonable person might be able to take all the facts into account, were they presented for them fairly, and make up their own minds. Others believe that, since there can only be one true set of facts (something no one disputes), the oppinion they believe most consistant with those facts should be presented to the exclusion of all others.
Whereas one might contrast on a page the claim that the world is flat with some of the high-quality NASA photos, the other might well post "The world is ROUND, you cretin!"
Moreover, the fact remains, that instead of handling these things in a constructive manner, LK resorted to trolling, rather than resolve such debates peacably, so whether he will ever consider other ways of approaching differing views remains to be seen.