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The Wikipedians Who Make it Happen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slightly-less-bent-than-noders dept.

Phoe6 writes "Many of us might have wondered who these crazy people are, spending lot of time at wikipedia and presenting us with such an invaluable information. Wired has decided to give some credits to the most active wikipedians, in their article titled Wiki becomes a way of life"

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  1. Good for them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About time people who did this got some praise. Damn fine work they do, and an invaluable source of info.

  2. WTF? Why would you /. Wikipedia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow -- great idea to slashdot such a wonderful server when we KNOW it has bandwidth problems already...

  3. I love the wikipedia, by Moby+Cock · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think Wikipedia is excellent. It is amazing how much care is put into it. However, I also find it extraordinarily frustrating. The latency of it renders it pratically unusable. I hope that Google's bandwidth can help this because as it is, I find I do not use the wikipedia because of the hrrible lag.

    And before you flame on, I DID send a donation.

  4. Re:Knowledge is democratized? by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Interesting
    So...if Wikipedia had been around way back when... the "world-is-flat" crowd would have edited out the silly "world-is-round" guy, right?

    No. The idea that the flat earth theory was ever widely accepted by is a myth. Auguste Compte and others laid the ground work for the "theory" in the 1800s with anti-religious sentiments that overstated the whole idea of "war" between science and religion.

    The idea that Colombus was opposed by a vast Flat Earth opposition was invented by Washington Irving in his book on the explorer in 1828. French scholar Antoine-Jean Letronne furthered the myth a few years later.

  5. Discussing Wikinews stories by Drog · · Score: 3, Interesting
    For anyone interested, my site (The World Forum) has been officially cooperating with Wikinews to offer a place for people to discuss some of the stories posted there. If there is ever a story posted on Wikinews that you'd like to discuss, but it's not cross-posted to The World Forum yet, you can submit it yourself (word-for-word, it's allowed).

    I posted a Wikinews story yesterday entitled "CIA Sending Suspects Overseas For 'Rendition'", which received almost 2000 hits due to being displayed on the front page of Google News for most of the day. This helps give Wikinews more readership, since they are not listed in Google News. Sadly, however, it does not result in increased discussion, since most people visiting from Google News are not people interested in posting comments.

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    Looking for political forums? Check out "The World Forum".