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Wikipedia Founder Sees Serious Quality Problems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wiki-this dept.

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "The Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online project. From the article: 'Meanwhile, criticism from outside the Wikipedia camp has been rebuffed with a ferocious blend of irrationality and vigor that's almost unprecedented in our experience: if you thought Apple, Amiga, Mozilla or OS/2 fans were er, ... passionate, you haven't met a wiki-fiddler.'"

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  1. Wikipedia is instant geek cred by stlhawkeye · · Score: 0, Troll
    The reason we so warmly embrace Wikipedia is because we know it's instant geek cred. Wanna back up your opinion? Link to Wikipedia, no geek will argue with that shit.

    Wikipedia is ultimately just like Slashdot - a collection of potentially relevent links to material you might be interested in accompanied by editorial material of highly dubious merit. And behind the scenes are a half million desperate nerds trying to be right about something, all while defending this exercise in social onanism as a "community" effort to provide a free educational resource to people.

    Go ahead, mod me a troll. It makes you feel really good for just a few minutes, doesn't it? Fuck that guy! Stupid trolls! We're trying to have an open, honest debate and a free exchange of ideas and he's in here disagreeing with us!

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  2. No problems here by fuzzy12345 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wikipedia says so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_problems_here

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